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A look at complex data in USEITI
November 30, 2015
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
November 20, 2015
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
November 19, 2015
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
November 18, 2015
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
November 18, 2015
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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