Looks like it click right into out database and do some powerful visualizations… assume Excel can do most of this as well.
http://www.visokio.com/
Posts Tagged ‘mining’
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July 18, 2013The Obama Campaign’s Digital Masterminds Cash In – NYTimes.com
June 24, 2013QT:”
But there was the potentially politically explosive matter of privacy. Unlike Facebook, where users were at least giving the campaign explicit permission to collect personal data even if they had not read the fine print, television watchers were making no such agreement. To address this, the campaign and Rentrak hired a third party to “anonymize” the data so that they would only know that the information was coming from a set-top box of somebody on the persuadable list; identifying information would be stripped away.
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What if they didn’t hire a 3rd party ? Is this something the government can do ?
Determine who the swing voters are & what they’re watching, so you can target pol ads. Impressive mining but a little scary from privacy perspective
Find swing voters & what they watch to target pol ads. Impressive #mining but a little #privacy scary
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campaigns-digital-masterminds-cash-in.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campaigns-digital-masterminds-cash-in.html
PRISM metadata analysis: Paul Revere identified by his connections to other Colonial terrorists. – Slate Magazine
June 16, 2013Great primer on network theory MT @russskinner PRISM… analysis: Paul Revere identified by his connections to others http://bit.ly/11DK8R9
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/06/prism_metadata_analysis_paul_revere_identified_by_his_connections_to_other.single.html
PRISM metadata analysis: Paul Revere identified by his connections to other Colonial terrorists. – Slate Magazine
June 11, 2013Competing on Analytics – Harvard Business Review
June 11, 2013http://www2.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/Maytal.Saar-Tsechansky/Teaching/Documents/Harvard%20Business%20Review%20Online%20%20Competing%20on%20Analytics.htm http://hbr.org/2006/01/competing-on-analytics/ar/1
An early paper on big data analytics in commercial organizations. Nice overview.
Great quote at the end: “The Oakland A’s aren’t the only ones playing moneyball. Companies of every stripe want to be part of the game.”
My compilation of useful stories on PRISM, which really hurts privacy credibility of US tech companies
June 11, 2013http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/us/booz-allen-grew-rich-on-government-contracts.html Leaker’s Employer Is Paid to Maintain Government Secrets
NSA Leaker’s Fate Could Lie With Beijing
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/06/10/contractors-fate-could-lie-with-beijing/
Data-Driven Tech Industry Is Shaken by Online Privacy Fears – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/technology/data-driven-tech-industry-is-shaken-by-online-privacy-fears.html
Contractor Edward Snowden Admits to Leaks – WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323495604578535653583992418.html
Peeping President Obama – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/dowd-peeping-president-obama.html
Legal basis for PRISM
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/prisms-legal-basis-how-we-got-here-and-what-we-can-do-to-get-back/276667/
U.S. Official Releases Details on Prism Program – WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324299104578533802289432458.html
Original Guardian Story
NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others • Top-secret Prism program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook
• Companies deny any knowledge of program in operation since 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
Q&A: David Altshuler on How to Share Millions of Human Genomes – ScienceInsider
June 11, 2013http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/06/-qa-david-altshuler-on-how-to-sh.html
But how will a little player participate in this? MT @gtyrelle: Q&A: on How to Share Millions of Human Genomes http://bit.ly/19jlKNs
Study Shows How Easy It Is to Determine Someone’s Identity With Cellphone Data
April 8, 2013An interesting juxtaposition with privacy implications from the March 27, 2013 edition of ACM TechNews.
Phys.Org (03/25/13) Lisa Zyga
http://phys.org/news/2013-03-easy-identity-cell.html
Personal Monitor Systems May Change Healthcare
UAHuntsville News (03/25/13) Jim Steele
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