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MY TAKE: The no. 1 reason ransomware attacks persist: companies overlook ‘unstructured data’

The Last Watchdog

Related video: Why it’s high time to protect unstructured data. But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools. Gartner analysts estimate that over 80 percent of enterprise data is unstructured and is growing up to 65 percent a year, enticing cyber criminals to mine the mother lode.

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MY TAKE: Why Satya Nadella is wise to align with privacy advocates on regulating facial recognition

The Last Watchdog

Here’s how Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst for the American Civil Liberties Union , described it for me: “Right now everybody knows that when you walk down the street you’re recorded by a lot of video cameras, and that the video will just sit on some hard drive somewhere and nothing really happens to it unless something dramatic goes down.

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. How data science evolved With the increase in data from social media, e-commerce sites, internet searches, customer surveys and elsewhere, a new field of study based on big data emerged.

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50 Years Makes a Difference! How Film Research Has Changed Since the 1972 Conference on Audiovisual Archives

Unwritten Record

You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background).

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No separation between physical and digital

CILIP

And we’re taking this ability to unlock knowledge further by developing Lancaster Digital Collections for text mining. Virtual reading rooms, where special collections artefacts can be shared via visualisers and video calls, make physical collections more accessible.

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Information Governance and the Records Lifecycle

The Texas Record

It may be used to create reports, bolster planning studies, or drive management decisions (and should be retained as long as the related records are retained), but the data itself does not really “do” anything and may not document any specific government business. Still, you can put the data to work—it is an information asset!

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The Book Lives On

John Battelle's Searchblog

.” We spoke on the phone and I learned that the intersection of society and data was her passion – and that her background was an awful lot like mine. Here’s a video of me talking about the themes of the book, and announcing Sara as well, at Le Web last week.

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