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Leveraging user-generated social media content with text-mining examples

IBM Big Data Hub

One of the best ways to take advantage of social media data is to implement text-mining programs that streamline the process. What is text mining? When used strategically, text-mining tools can transform raw data into real business intelligence , giving companies a competitive edge. How does text mining work?

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Privacy and Security of Data at Universities

Schneier on Security

The boundaries between research and grey data are blurring, making it more difficult to assess the risks and responsibilities associated with any data collection. Many sets of data, both research and grey, fall outside privacy regulations such as HIPAA, FERPA, and PII.

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Interview with the Head of the NSA’s Research Directorate

Schneier on Security

Despite public reckoning over mass surveillance, NSA famously faces the challenge of collecting such extreme quantities of data that, on top of legal and ethical problems, it can be nearly impossible to sift through all of it to find everything of value. The field of data science aims to solve them.

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Our Data Governance Is Broken. Let’s Reinvent It.

John Battelle's Searchblog

First, Data. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. Now, what is data? When it comes to many of the things I am going to talk about here, I am not an expert. For whatever reason, I did this by founding or co-founding companies.

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Accelerating scope 3 emissions accounting: LLMs to the rescue

IBM Big Data Hub

Some companies attempt to estimate Scope 3 emissions by collecting data from suppliers and manually categorizing data, but progress is hindered by challenges such as large supplier base, depth of supply chains, complex data collection processes and substantial resource requirements.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

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For 2nd Time in 3 Years, Mobile Spyware Maker mSpy Leaks Millions of Sensitive Records

Krebs on Security

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.

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