The unstoppable advances in data analysis and processing techniques for knowledge extraction and decision making, whether concerning Big Data or small data, motivate the idea of publishing datasets in ...

Data is very important for the progress of science. This is often in a conflict with the sensitivity of the gathered data and the participants’ privacy. Therefore, the data cannot be published “as is” ...

Before implementing a project of any kind, we ask which factors we should keep in mind to ensure project success. To be clear, the question isn't what we should do; I'm pretty sure everyone's got a ...

Researchers from two universities in Europe have published a method they say is able to correctly re-identify 99.98% of individuals in anonymized data sets with just 15 demographic attributes. Their ...

Jeff Jonas, the chief scientist and distinguished engineer at IBM’s entity analytic solutions group, has developed a means of sharing corporate data without revealing what that data contains. This ...