The WA State Department of Revenue has developed a very cool new visualization of the savings to taxpayers from various tax incentives and policies. It's a Tableau interactive visualization posted online, (see below) and the data behind it is also available for bulk download as an Excel file.
The visualization and data are part of the new 2016 Tax Exemption Study…
Washington Health Benefit Exchange (HBE) won recognition in the 2014 State IT Awards presented by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) as a finalist in the Digital Government to Citizens category for the Washington Healthplanfinder: As Facilitator for Washington State's Health Insurance Market.
The HBE was created in state statute in 2011 as a "…
Dear Washingtonians,
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month! I want to urge everyone to test their knowledge with our daily quiz and join us for our upcoming presentations.
I also want to focus your attention on this month's key word - awareness.
There is a critical need to increase awareness across the country when it comes to cybersecurity.
There…
No one should assume they are immune from identity theft or having their accounts hacked.
While politicians and top executives are often in the crosshairs of hackers, many people who are not in high profile occupations often become victims as well, said Aaron Brown, a security analyst with the Washington state Office of CyberSecurity, OCS.
"A lot of us wonder, 'what do I have…
WSDOT published a cool assortment of travel time data for I-405 a couple of weeks ago; not a ton of promotion of the dataset, but it's out there for folks to explore (here's a link). Now it looks like that posting has inspired one of the community of Tableau Public users to do just that -- explore the data with a different visual (embedded below). Cool example of how even a dense set of…
