mining of data

Political parties deny links to data mining firm. President of the Indian National Congress Party Rahul Gandhi addresses the 48th Congress plenary session in New Delhi on March 17, 2018. PHOTO: AFP. Published. 11 hours ago. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Email More. Share Tweet Linkedin Pin Google+ Reddit Print ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke four days of silence Wednesday by posting about the Cambridge Analytica controversy involving a data mining company linked to the Trump campaign. Zuckerberg says Facebook has a "responsibility" to protect users' data, and that "if we can't then we don't deserve ...

Mozilla is halting advertising on Facebook at least until the social network strengthens its protections of user data. Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images. Mozilla, which makes the popular Firefox web browser, has become the first major organisation to stop advertising on Facebook amid the ...

A plan to mine data from Commonwealth Games visitors who use free and fast wifi in Australia was abandoned Thursday as a privacy scandal swirls around social media giant Facebook. The local Gold Coast council is offering a service up to 10 times normal speed after laying new fibre cables to coincide ...

Gold Coast Council to use free Commonwealth Games WiFi service for data mining. 6 hours ago. Newshub staff. The new WiFi service has been launched in time for the Commonwealth Games. Photo credit: AAP. If you're headed to the Commonwealth Games, be wary - the WiFi you use may take ...

Every day brings new revelations about the protection of personal data and the nefarious uses to which it can be put. The most recent scandal involves Facebook and the way it manages third-party access to user information. Current protocols and regulations are not doing the job. Ordinary users ...

While the conversation this week has been around Cambridge Analytica and questions over how our data is being used, a new "smart computer" being built in Adelaide is hoping to use data mining to predict civil unrest and other major events.

Matt Hancock became the first MP to launch his own app last month. Photograph: A Davidson/SHM/Rex/Shutterstock. The culture secretary, Matt Hancock, has been forced to change the settings on his own app after complaints that it was harvesting the data and photos of users. Speaking to ITV's Good ...

Facebook's MPK20 headquarters building in Menlo Park, California. Your data is somewhere behind that colorful structure. Facebook. Consultants working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign exploited the personal Facebook data of millions. That's the key message in Saturday stories by The New ...

February 28, 2018 - Pairing EHR data mining with patient outreach and follow-up could be an effective way to identify patients with undiagnosed hypertension and support chronic disease management in underserved communities, according to a study published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality ...

Data mining has been in widespread use for the better part of this decade for everything from marketing to to bitcoin. The initial idea was that keywords, phrases, and even images and shapes can be sifted out of massive quantities of data with pattern recognition. But data mining also can be used to identify ...

GE's first-ever chief digital officer, Ganesh Bell, is leaving that historic tech giant to help lead data science startup Uptake. Chicago-based Uptake announced Wednesday that Bell will join the company as president. He is departing from GE, where he was headed up digitalization efforts and also was CEO of ...

Using a data mining algorithm, they created new phosphor candidates containing these elements and performed a series of first-principles calculations to predict which would perform well as a phosphor. Out of 918 candidates, SLAO emerged as the leading material. It was predicted to be stable and exhibit ...

Today, the term "data mining" is often used interchangeably with "analytics" (although some experts argue that data mining is a subset of analytics). It's also closely related to business intelligence and data science. Essentially, data mining involves using algorithms and models to find patterns in internal and ...

Instead, they restrict learning to limited pathways using data-mining. Learning online is learning that is constantly monitored and surveilled. With a learning management system, the algorithm is in charge, not the teacher. In an era of leaks and security breaches, nothing about our children that is uploaded to ...

Data mining is one of the widely used techniques for finding hidden patterns from voluminous data. Sports management committee uses data mining as a tool to select the players of the team to achieve best results. In this article, data mining is used for Indian cricket team and an analysis is being carried out ...

Minecraft player Matt B., whose Reddit username is “worldseed,” is data-mining old servers in search of players' darkest secrets. (He spoke to us anonymously, saying that he preferred to keep his online and offline identities separate.) Matt wrote two programs in Java: BookReader.jar and SignReader.jar.

Knowing a lot about your customers can be vital to increasing sales, so mine your data well and you could unearth some real gems. Systems that translate customer feedback into commercial insights are well worth investing in. Here, we look at how combing data clouds can reveal silver linings. Is 'data' a ...