Unleashing the Power of Data to Serve the American People by Dr. DJ Patil.
You can read (and listen) to Patil’s high level goals as the first ever U.S. Chief Data Scientist at his post.
His goals are too abstract and general to attract meaningful disagreement and that isn’t the purpose of this post.
I posted the link to his comments to urge you to contact Patil (or rather his office) with concrete plans for how his office can assist you in finding and using data. The sooner the better.
No doubt some areas are already off-limits for improved data access and some priorities are already set.
That said, contacting Patil before he and his new office have solidified in place can play an important role in establishing the scope of his office. On a lesser scale, the same situation that confronted George Washington as the first U.S. President. Nothing was set in stone and every act established a precedent for those who came after him.
Now is the time to press for an expansive and far reaching role for the U.S. Chief Data Scientist within the federal bureaucracy.