data mining
Creating Meaning from Data
According to CarSort.com, there are 9 cars below USD 15,000 that are easy to park. Their length is less than 15 feet. Read more
Privacy Nightmare: Data Mine & Analyze all College Students' Online Activities
It is not uncommon for schools to be equipped with metal detectors, cameras for video surveillance, motion detectors, RFID badge tracking, computer programs to check school visitors against sex offender lists, and infrared systems to track body heat after school hours and potentially hunt down intruders. No parent ever wants any possibility of a school tragedy, so other biometric systems in the name of security have been introduced. Iris recognition and fingerprint scans are being used to monitor students' Internet usage. Now there is a particularly invasive idea being pitched to universities as a "crystal ball" to stop future violence by data mining and analyzing all college students' online activities. Read more
ACLU on Massive Surveillance Society: Reclaim Privacy, American Liberties
The ACLU has warned that we must speak up now to reclaim our liberties that have been stripped from us in the "state of emergency" mentality decade and "surveillance society" following 9/11 in the United States. It further warns that if we do not, then the "ever-expanding" claims of national security will permanently sacrifice key freedoms like "our right to privacy and our ability to speak, dissent, exchange ideas, and engage in political activity without the chilling fear of unwarranted government intrusion." Read more
Augmented Reality Research: 'Offline to Online Recognition'
At the Black Hat security conference, Carnegie Mellon University researchers Alessandro Acquisti, Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman presented "Faces of Facebook: Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality" [PDF]. During their research, they took photos of students with a web cam and then used facial recognition software to compare the photos with Facebook to get students' names. Read more
Did Harvard Researchers Breach Students' Privacy?
When Harvard researchers aggregated Facebook data and supposedly anonymized it, then no one should have been able to identify those users. That was not the case, however, and the "privacy meltdown" caught Harvard researchers in a net of ethical turmoil. The right or wrong of data mining social networks for social-science studies is a bone of contention between privacy watchdogs and researchers. Read more
Project PM Leaks Dirt on Romas/COIN Classified Intelligence Mass Surveillance
Updated note: To be clear, all analysis and documentation to expose this mass surveillance was done by Project PM. Read more
How Google will Search & Destroy your privacy, interview with author Scott Cleland
Scott Cleland is said to be "the world's leading Google critic." He's testified about Google in front on Congress and runs GoogleMonitor.com, Googleopoly.net, and Precursor. Read more
Digital Data Mined Dating
With the approach of Valentine's Day, I have some online dating related amusing news and sleazy bad news for you. Read more
Lawsuit Claims Microsoft, McDonald’s, Mazda & CBS Used Ads as Cover for Data Mining
Microsoft, along with McDonald's, Mazda and CBS have been named in a class action suit filed in Federal Court for working in concert with behavioral advertising specialist Interclick. The companies allegedly used their ads as a "cover for data-mining, to identify the websites people visit, invading people's privacy, misappropriating their personal information and interfering with the operations of their computers." Read more
Cisco software mines social sites
Cisco this week jumped into social media CRM with software that allows companies to mine through social media networks looking for discussions on those companies and their products. Cisco SocialMiner is intended to augment customer contact and service capabilities by proactively injecting customer service agents into public discussions on companies and brands in social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and blogs. Read more
Data Mining your performance metrics - uncover that nugget...
Data Mining is relatively new technology but it provides extremely powerful functionality for our Business Intelligence solutions. The typical Data Warehouse may be multiple terabytes so how do we sift through that data to uncover data patterns and valuable nuggets of information? Recently, I have been discussing "Performance" Data Warehouses. Can we apply the same strategies there too? Of course... Read more
IT still proves to be a hot job market.
Submitted by brandon on Tue, 03/31/09 - 3:00pm.This week I am teaching a class in the Ascolta Bellevue office. Some of them have asked me what areas of expertise are hot right now. While I can personally say that Wireless and Security has done well for me there are some other areas that you might me interested in. Read more
MapReduce just became something large enterprises should care about
Submitted by CurtMonash on Tue, 08/26/08 - 7:32am.MapReduce sits at the heart of Google's data processing -- and Yahoo's, Facebook's and LinkedIn's as well. But it's been highly controversial, due to an apparent conflict with standard data warehousing common sense. Now two data warehouse DBMS vendors -- Greenplum and Aster Data -- have announced the integration of MapReduce into their SQL database managers. Read more
Podcast/Video: Xobni & Co-Founder Matt Brezina
Submitted by Mitchell Ashley on Thu, 07/24/08 - 8:59pm.If you aren't using the Xobni plugin for Microsoft Outlook, then its time to upgrade from stone knives and bear skins to some new email + social networking tools. I had the pleasure of interviewing Xobni co-founder Matt Brezina earlier this year about Xobni, back when it was still in closed beta. Xobni's one of those innovative products I wish I'd thought of. It digs into your Outlook pst/ost files and pulls out valuable nuggets that help you use email more effectively. In addition to the podcast, I've also recorded a demo of Xobni and delved into some of the deeper capabilities on my personal The Converging Network blog. Read more
NSF discusses next-generation data mining in Baltimore
Submitted by Alpha Doggs on Mon, 08/06/07 - 8:16pm.The National Science Foundation is holding a Workshop on next-generation data mining and "cyber-enabled discovery for innovation." The event, taking place in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 10 - Oct. 12, will explore the emerging technologies and applications of data mining in e-science and engineering, the media, security/surveillance, social science, finance, and the Web.
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