Today, the U.S. government faces the mother of all big data mountains. From National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather data to earth science information from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to the genomics data at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the government—and, therefore, the American people—own perhaps the largest collection of big data sets on this planet.

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