GovTV: DJ Patil's data vision

The newly named chief data scientist sketches the future of data-driven government.

On Feb. 18, DJ Patil was named U.S. chief data scientist. The next morning, he was onstage at O'Reilly Media's Strata+Hadoop World conference in San Jose, Calif., sketching his vision for the job and the future of data-driven government:

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