From: FedScoop
Robin Thottungal, who came to EPA in September, has embarked on a series of mini data projects for the agency’s offices.
By Whitney Blair Wyckoff
The Environmental Protection Agency’s new chief data scientist is using a “lean” startup approach — a philosophy that emphasizes testing different ideas for a project and gathering feedback before creating a minimum viable product — to find better ways to use the reams of regulation, compliance and enforcement data the agency collects.
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He hopes that, through his work, EPA regulators and other officials will get better at finding patterns in the information they collect and more quickly take action.
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