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Big Data at the U.S. Department
of Transportation
Daniel Pitton
Within government circles, big data is well positioned as an administra-
tion initiative that is supported by the Oce of Science and Technology
Policy (OSTP). Called the Big Data Research and Development Initiative,
it commits a $200 million dollar investment into big data among six fed-
eral agencies, including Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s
(DARPA’s) XDATA Project that is chartered to
1. develop scalable algorithms for processing imperfect data in distrib-
uted data stores, and
2. create eective human– computer interaction tools for facilitating
rapidly customi ...