Data Mining News March 14, 2013
March 13th, 2013
- Data mining is just plain snooping – Financial Times
Data mining is just plain snooping
Financial Times
Let's call data mining what it really is: surveillance. Many internet companies are no less than bloodhounds tracking down their prey. Existing and proposed regulations are attempts to legitimise surveillance, not protect privacy. The data economy is … - Beat the online competition with data mining – FT Adviser
Beat the online competition with data mining
FT Adviser
It is not an exaggeration to say that the internet has created more new business models than I can easily count. It is probably also not too much of an overstatement to add that the percentage of those models that are actually sound and rational, and … - Backups as a source for data mining – Computerworld (blog)
Backups as a source for data mining
Computerworld (blog)
When you combine disk-based backup with data deduplication, the result is a single instance of all the valuable data in the organization. I can't think of a better, more complete data source for mining. With the right tools, the backup management team … - NAB 2013: Harris enhances NetGain with data mining, analytical and mobile … – Rapid tv news
SatNews PublishersNAB 2013: Harris enhances NetGain with data mining, analytical and mobile …
Rapid tv news
The enhanced version can also perform analytics on Facebook user data so that media companies have the advanced capability to analyse viewing audiences and enhance advertising placement. It also claims more than 300 predefined data mining and …
Harris Broadcast Enhances NetGain Media Software Toolsetmediacaster
NAB: Harris Broadcast Upgrades NetGainBroadcasting & Cable - Tories restrict online data mining, but not for social media – Globe and Mail
Globe and MailTories restrict online data mining, but not for social media
Globe and Mail
Regulating what the private and public sector can do with the amount of data generated online has become a key issue in the field of online privacy. Data mining is a lucrative business, most often associated with marketing and research firms scouring … - New licensing system to fight fraud raises concerns about data mining – Three Rivers Publishing
New licensing system to fight fraud raises concerns about data mining
Three Rivers Publishing
JEFFERSON CITY – In an era when privacy has been all but eliminated by social media, Missouri lawmakers worry that a new process for obtaining both driver's licenses and non-driver's licenses would result in this data being used by third-party vendors … - Joy Pullmann: Data mining kids crosses line – OCRegister
Joy Pullmann: Data mining kids crosses line
OCRegister
The U.S. Department of Education is investigating how public schools can collect information on "non-cognitive" student attributes, after granting itself the power to share student data across agencies without parents' knowledge. The feds want to use … - Data Mining And Machine Learning – Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Data Mining And Machine Learning
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
One of the keys to success in any area, whether it is on the sports field or the business arena is knowledge, and knowledge has always been acquired from insights based on empirical information. In other words: contextualised data. Hence, so much of … - Canada ‘light years’ behind US on data mining in election campaigns, time to … – Hill Times (subscription)
Hill Times (subscription)Canada 'light years' behind US on data mining in election campaigns, time to …
Hill Times (subscription)
Canada 'light years' behind U.S. on data mining in election campaigns, time to catch up, say experts. NCC's Stephen Taylor says Conservatives are getting 'complacent' and the Libs, NDP are catching up. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright. Treasury …
