RE: healthdata.gov/developer challenges

George, Thank you for respecting the role of the data scientist and press,
and you will just have to live with spambots like we all do. J Brand

 

From: Thomas, George (OS/ASA/OCIO/OEA) [mailto:George.Thomas1@hhs.gov] 
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 10:48 AM
To: Brand Niemann
Cc: public-egov-ig@w3.org; 'Chris Musialek'; Holm, Jeanne M (1760)
Subject: Re: healthdata.gov/developer challenges

 

Good luck with everything Brand, I hope the distinction you're making works
for you.

 

Believe it or not, people know how to find me without your website enabling
spambots for my government email address. 

 

-g

 

From: Brand Niemann <bniemann@cox.net>
To: George Thomas <george.thomas1@hhs.gov>
Cc: "W3C (All)" <public-egov-ig@w3.org>, Chris Musialek
<christopher.musialek@gsa.gov>, "tpark@ostp.eop.gov" <tpark@ostp.eop.gov>,
"jeanne. holm" <jeanne.m.holm@jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: RE: healthdata.gov/developer challenges

 

George, Thanks for the suggestion, but I am not interested in submitting for
the following reasons:

 

As I said in your session last week, we speak a different language, to me it
is not about what one does to the data (technology), but what one does with
the data (science, statistics, and visualizations):

http://gov.aol.com/2012/06/06/health-datapalooza-a-model-of-innovation/

 

This morning Dr. Holdren suggested I work on the U.S.  - India Health
Initiative:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/06/192007.htm

 

Last week at the Health Datapalooza, Jonathan Gluck suggested I help Dr.
Merkin with more prizes:

http://gov.aol.com/2012/03/23/health-datapalooza-would-benefit-from-real-inn
ovation-investment/

 

Brand

 

P.S. I need to keep your email there so people contact you and not me about
your challenges.

 

Dr. Brand Niemann

Director and Senior Data Scientist

Semantic Community

http://semanticommunity.info

http://gov.aol.com/bloggers/brand-niemann/

703-268-9314

 

From: Thomas, George (OS/ASA/OCIO/OEA) [mailto:George.Thomas1@hhs.gov] 
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 7:50 AM
To: Brand Niemann
Cc: public-egov-ig@w3.org; 'Chris Musialek'; tpark@ostp.eop.gov
Subject: Re: healthdata.gov/developer challenges

 

Brand, 

 

Since you've already 'done' six of the seven challenges announced to evolve
and mature HHS health data and the healthdata.gov platform components, be
sure to submit your solutions via challenge.gov so that they will get
reviewed. 

 

I would really appreciate if your web site did not include my email address,
as this enables receiving spam at work. I'll ask you to please remove that. 

 

George

 

From: Brand Niemann <bniemann@cox.net>
To: George Thomas <george.thomas1@hhs.gov>, "ckan-dev@lists.okfn.org"
<ckan-dev@lists.okfn.org>, "info@codeforamerica.org"
<info@codeforamerica.org>, "sunlightlabs@googlegroups.com"
<sunlightlabs@googlegroups.com>
Cc: "gov@omg.org" <gov@omg.org>, "W3C (All)" <public-egov-ig@w3.org>, 'Luis
Bermudez' <lbermudez@opengeospatial.org>, Chris Musialek
<christopher.musialek@gsa.gov>, "tpark@ostp.eop.gov" <tpark@ostp.eop.gov>
Subject: RE: healthdata.gov/developer challenges

 

Todd Park: "I found at HHS that the best way to get a project done in
government is find the people that had that idea years ago and recruit them
to work for you."