Tag: privacy

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Peter's stats stuff - R. Income inequality data Ideally the Gini coefficient to estimate inequality is based on original household survey data with hundreds or thousands of data points. Often this data isn’t available due to access restrictions from privacy or other concerns, and all that is published is some kind of aggregate measure. Some aggregations include the income at the 80th percentile divided by that at the 20th (or 90 and 10); the number of people at the top of the distribution whose combined income is equal to that of everyone else; or the income of ... Read More

Feed: What's New. DynamoDB offers data protection and security using TLS endpoints for encryption-in-transit, a client-side encryption library, and fine-grained access control using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), providing control at the item and attribute level. VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB further improves privacy and security, especially for applications with strict compliance and audit requirements, or that handle sensitive data. If you’re connecting to DynamoDB from a VPC, here are four reasons that make using VPC Endpoints for DynamoDB a no-brainer. First, while normal charges apply for NAT gateway access, there is no additional cost for using VPC Endpoints for ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Elsa Sotiriadis. A 1925 artist's conception of what Nikola Tesla's wireless power transmission system might look like in the future (source: Wikimedia Commons) Sign up for BioCoder news and updates to say on top of the biological revolution. Biology is becoming the new digital. As the engineering of biology starts delivering solutions at industrial scale while becoming more data-driven and automated, investors are getting excited to fund breakthrough biotechnologies that unlock this potential for a whole range of industries. Europe has been steadily rising as a global hub for innovation and is attracting big ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Maliha Balala. Formation of mammatus clouds over the city of Regina Saskatchewan (source: Craig Lindsay on Wikimedia Commons) Download two free chapters from "Moving Hadoop to the Cloud" to learn more about harnessing the cloud for Hadoop clusters. When news broke that Amazon was acquiring Whole Foods, brick and mortar retailers panicked. Many industries are feeling pressure to undergo digital transformation for fear of being “Amazoned” (acquired by an online competitor). The International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts worldwide spending on digital transformation technologies will grow to more than $1.2 trillion in 2017 (an increase ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Curt Monash. August 10, 2017 1. In June I wrote about burgeoning interest in data security. I’d now like to add: Even more than I previously thought, demand seems to be driven largely by issues of regulatory compliance. In an exception to that general rule, many enterprise have vague mandates for data encryption. In awkward contradiction to that general rule, there’s a general sense that it’s just security’s “turn” to be a differentiating feature, since various other “enterprise” needs are already being well-addressed. We can reconcile these anecdata pretty well if we postulate that: Enterprises generally ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: marc-haber; If information is paramount, it becomes our collective responsibility to nurture, develop, secure and protect information. One should nurture and develop information so that it is well formed, mature and timely; and secure and protect information so that it is valued and guarded, not shared or misused.The importance of policies and rules  Thus, applying governance through an established set of policies and rules, is the basic tenet for any information. This is much like the historical evolution of governance where kings were responsible for their subjects, to today, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Rstats on Julia Silge. At useR!2017 in Brussels last month, I contributed to an organized session focused on navigating the 11,000+ packages on CRAN. My collaborators on this session and I recently put together an overall summary of the session and our goals, and now I’d like to talk more about the specific issue of learning about R packages and deciding which ones to use. John and Spencer will write more soon about the two other issues of our focus: meta-packages that can unify multiple packages within domains and searching for packages. In preparation for this session, ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. More than ever, “WOW!” business outcomes are driven by data scientists, and there are many types of data scientist. Everyone can benefit from understanding the ways data scientists explore, analyze and execute strategic business decisions and plans. The 2017 Teradata PARTNERS conference offers many sessions focused on Data Science – so get an instant education on Data Science. Take a look at the options: State of the Art Data Science for the Data Driven Enterprise – Look at Data Science in practice at Verizon Wireless! Learn how to build a data driven ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Joyce Norris-Montanari. Before considering how data on demand changes the data strategy (for different users), we first need to define what data on demand means. Data on demand is the delivery of information for use by consumers, when they want it. This is a tough requirement to meet for any technology team. Because when they want it may not be instantaneous, real-time data. I like to think of data on demand like video on demand for your phone, television or laptop. By pressing a button, we rented ‘The Fate of the Furious’ last weekend, and within a couple of ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Olivier Bloch. New Azure IoT integration with device connectivity platforms brings the best of the “Internet” and the “Things” together, making both hardware connectivity and Cloud development simple. Electric Imp and Particle, each in their own unique way, offer device connectivity platforms for seamlessly, securely, and reliably connecting Things to the Internet. To complete their solutions, and give easy access to the power of the Cloud to their customers, both companies now offer a seamless integration with Azure IoT Hub. Once device data lands in Azure through IoT Hub, it can easily be analyzed for ... Read More