The NSA, Link Analysis and Fraud Detection
The recent leaks about the NSA’s use data mining and predictive analytics has certainly raised awareness of our field and…
A Visualization of the World’s Largest Data Breaches [INFOGRAPHIC]
The people from Information is Beautiful have built a stunning visualization of the world’s biggest data breaches in the past decade,…
Encrypting Data for Data Breach Prevention
The State of California released a report on 2012 data breaches that found 1.4 million residents would have had their…
What Data Do the Five Largest Tech Companies Collect? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Big Data brings big privacy issues, and it is wise to understand what data is collected from you when you…
HIPAA Violations Cost Health Insurer $1.7 Million: Lessons Learned
Reuters reports that WellPoint, Inc., the second largest U.S. health insurer, has reached a $1.7 million settlement with the Dept.…
Why Budgeting Is “Mission Critical” in Higher Education
You can’t pick up a newspaper without reading about how higher education is under pressure to keep tuition costs in…
How Coca-Cola Takes a Refreshing Approach to Big Data
As the world’s largest non-alcoholic beverage company, Coca-Cola generates Petabytes of data from various sources: multi-channel retail data, customer profile…
Testing the San Francisco Open Data Initiative [VIDEO]
San Francisco’s Open Data Initiative allows the government of San Francisco to share open data with its citizens, who can…
Four Ways to Make Enterprise Social Work
Research shows that enterprise social software hasn't really worked – because it hasn’t been enough about work. Research shows that…
Tag, Anyone?
The nature of data is changing. At the moment organizations gather data from many different sources including loyalty cards, machine…
