USPS OIG: Big Data, Big Questions

Posted on August 25, 2014August 25, 2014 by 21cpw

About 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the past 2 years alone, according to IBM. Yes, we live in the era of Big Data. Data is vital to our work as an OIG. We use data analytics – including data mining, risk assessment models, and predictive analytics –…

In-house analytics tool maps fraud at USPS

Posted on May 20, 2014May 22, 2014 by 21cpw

Data is the raw material with which investigators deal. The challenge for them often is not so much getting data—there is more of it being produced and stored by government today than ever before—but making sense of it. The inspector general’s office at the U.S. Postal Service has developed its own system to analyze data…