Before Big Data mining, we need to ensure privacy–but how?

by dennyglee Categories: BigData · Data Warehousing · Medical InformaticsTags: Leave a comment

  First things first, but not necessarily in that order! — words of wisdom from Doctor Who         The tweet below got me thinking about the importance of privacy. Data mining demands sound privacy policies in age of ‘big data’ http://t.co/1N0gZhz #datamining #BI #bigdata   After all, in this day of age, with access to all sorts of disparate information, it becomes easier and easier to uniquely identify a person by their behaviors and external patterns.   In Dr. Latanya Sweeney’s ground breaking paper k-Anonymity: a model for protecting privacy, she had noted the following startling observations: Based…

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SQL Server/PDW Hadoop Connectors

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Stargate-SG1 Quote from SG-1 episode Bad Guys: (Vala is attempting to power the stargate with a Goa’uld bomb.) Vala: There’s a 70% chance that if we dial manually we’ll be able to establish a connection, and a 50% chance the bomb will just go off. Lt. Col. Mitchell: That a 120%. Vala: Well there’s some crossover where we establish a wormhole and it blows up. Lt. Col. Mitchell: [on the radio] Jackson, did you catch any of that? Dr. Jackson: Yeah, 100% chance we should have brought someone who knows what they’re doing.     In the posting Parallel Data…

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