Google, US Govt Back Same Data Mining Startup
Their objectives may be different but both Google and the investment arm of the CIA are funding the same startup: Recorded Future. According to a piece in Wired both In-Q-Tel (the CIA investment firm) and Google will have a seat on the companys board.
Bringing Data Mining into the Mainstream
Plumbing the worlds ever-growing pools of digitized information on the Web, in corporate databases, generated by scientific research for wisdom and profit is a growth industry today. The geeky field even has a shorthand name, big data.
The Global Association for Contact Center Best Practices & Networking
KXEN, the provider of data mining automation solutions, today revealed its second year of record user satisfaction survey results, with 90% of users declaring KXEN had improved their business, and 94% stating it was strategic to their organisation going forward.
GNOME Census
GNOME developer Dave Neary has posted the highlights of his work to determine where contributions to GNOME come from. This "Census" is a combination of data mining and surveys that gives a snapshot of gnome activity and the profile of a GNOME contributor. This project's aims were to answer three questions in particular: What does the developer community look like? What companies are investing in ...
The Facebook Data Torrent Debacle: Q&A
Security concerns over Facebook have been raised yet again after a security consultant collected the names and profile URLs for 171 million Facebook accounts from publicly available information. The consultant, Ron Bowes, then uploaded the data as a torrent file allowing anyone with a computer connection to download the data.
ACLU Seeking FOIA to See FBI Data Mining, Mapping Efforts
The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking records from 29 states and the District of Columbia about the "collection and use of race and ethnicity data in local communities."
Public data snatched from 170 million Facebook profiles
Public but personal details from more than 170 million Facebook profiles were harvested from the site and made available in a downloadable torrent file this week.
Data mining made faster: New method eases analysis of 'multidimensional' information
To many big companies, you aren't just a customer, but are described by multiple "dimensions" of information within a computer database. Now, a computer scientist has devised a new method for simpler, faster "data mining," or extracting and analyzing massive amounts of such data.
Data Mining Made Faster
New method eases analysis of 'multidimensional' informationTo many big companies, you aren't just a customer, but are described by multiple "dimensions" of information within a computer database. Now, a University of Utah computer scientist has devised a new method for simpler, faster "data mining," or extracting and analyzing massive amounts of such data."Whether you ...
U. researchers meeting with NSA on data mining work
When the National Security Agency's new information storage center is up and running at Camp Williams, there will be a lot of...