Big Data in Public Administration

Big Issues Facing Contemporary Public Administration Theory

To what extent were Woodrow Wilson’s ideas about public administration informed by German organic political theory? Drawing on the writings of Wilson, Lorenz von Stein, and Johann K. Bluntschli on public administration, and comparing American and German primary sources, the author off ers insights into Wilson’s general concept of public administration, as well as his understanding of the politi...

Big Data in the Public Sector

The Trento Big Data Platform for Public Administration and Large Companies: Use cases and Opportunities

Data analysis is used to drive almost every aspect of our modern society, including mobile services, retail manufacturing, financial services, life sciences, and physical sciences. Novel approaches are required to extract value from such data without omitting the opportunities enabling service innovation design. TrentoRISE, in collaboration with the dbTrento group [8] is developing an Informati...

Utilizing Big Data for Public Health

Big data is usually defined as information assets characterized by such high volume, velocity, and variety that specific technology and analytical methods are required for its transformation into value.1 Analysis of big data may provide useful information in a variety of areas, including healthcare.2 Numbers of data sets obtained from routine operations in the area of healthcare have rapidly in...

Privacy and Security of Big Data in THE Cloud

Big data has been arising a growing interest in both scien- tific and industrial fields for its potential value. However, before employing big data technology into massive appli- cations, a basic but also principle topic should be investigated: security and privacy. One of the biggest concerns of big data is privacy. However, the study on big data privacy is still at a very early stage. Many or...