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A look at complex data in USEITI

By Greg Boone
November 30, 2015 useiti open data

We've been working with the Office of Natural Resource Revenues on implementing the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) standard, which includes all kinds of data. One new data point we have this year is the federal production number: The amount of a given resource produced on federal lands.
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How we use a lean approach to product design

By Nick Brethauer , Colin MacArthur
November 20, 2015 design agile how we work best practices communication tools and practices guides

Here at 18F, several product teams (including CALC, Discovery, and EITI) have been experimenting with a lean product design approach to building software, often called “lean UX.” In a nutshell, it is a set of ideas about design and project management that help us focus not just on what we build, but on the outcomes our tools enable.
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New playbook details what it's like to work with 18F Delivery

By Will Slack
November 19, 2015 how we work agency work transformation services acquisition services

If you or your agency have thought about working with 18F but are unsure of how we work with our partners, we have a new set of guidelines to help you out. The 18F Delivery Partnership Playbook is specifically targeted at federal offices interested in working with 18F to build digital services.
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The current future of 18F marketplaces

By Chris Cairns , V. David Zvenyach , Noah Kunin , Andrew McMahon
November 18, 2015 acquisition services procurement agile bpa

In August, we announced the Full-stack Development Pool vendors for the Agile Delivery Services Marketplace. As we continue to work on the alpha version of this marketplace, we're beginning to plan out additional micro-markets as well.
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Automating easy government decisions with machine learning

By Tony Garvan
November 18, 2015 machine learning best practices data access

Machine learning is a subfield of computer science that focuses on the problem of learning from data. We think there’s a big opportunity to make government more efficient by using the massive paper trail that government agencies have been creating over the decades as datasets for machine learning algorithms.
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