Obama’s big data project targets community improvement

As businesses are scrambling to make better use of the growing volume of data they are collecting, the federal government sees in big data an opportunity for meaningful social improvement.The Obama administration this week launched the Opportunity Project, a coordinated effort to use "open data effort to improve economic mobility for all Americans," according to a White House fact sheet.[ Related: Feds advance open data roadmap despite challenges ]Aden Van Noppen, an advisor in the office of the