{"id":2535,"date":"2013-10-23T14:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2013-10-23T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:59:31","slug":"government-data-chiefs-find-varied-measures-for-analytics-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/government-data-chiefs-find-varied-measures-for-analytics-value\/2535\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Data Chiefs Find Varied Measures for Analytics Value"},"content":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON\u2014For Michael Wood, who recently retired from his position as executive director of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB), success of his team\u2019s analytics work has been a difficult thing to measure. The RATB was created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, better known as the stimulus program, in order to provide transparency and accountability in the disbursement of $800 billion plus in funds. It built the Recovery Operations Center, which used data analytics to detect possible fraud. Overall, the program detected a very low amount of fraud, which is likely the result <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/government-data-chiefs-find-varied-measures-for-analytics-value\/2535\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014For Michael Wood, who recently retired from his position as executive director of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB), success of his team\u2019s analytics work has been a difficult thing to measure. The RATB was created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, better known as the stimulus program, in order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-predictive-analytics-world-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}