Will Organization Design Be Affected By Big Data?

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Privacy by design in big data

An overview of privacy enhancing technologies in the era of big data analytics FINAL 1.0 PUBLIC DECEMBER 2015 The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is a centre of network and information security expertise for the EU, its member states, the private sector and Europe's citizens. ENISA works with these groups to develop advice and recommendations on good practice ...

How Useful Will Functional Proteomics Data Be?

Large-scale protein interaction maps are, with gene expression profiles, among the first examples of data sets generated without specific knowledge on functions of genes. These are technology-driven experiments rather than hypothesis-driven experiments. They are valuable tools for protein function prediction, despite the occurrence of typical artifacts. These approaches are still in their early...

Who Will Be Affected by Supermarket Health Programs? Tracking Customer Behavior Changes via Preference Modeling

As obesity has become a worldwide problem, a number of health programs have been designed to encourage participants to maintain a healthier lifestyle. The stakeholders often desire to know how effective the programs are and how to target the right participants. Motivated by a real-life health program conducted by an Australian supermarket chain, we propose a novel method to track customer behav...

When can "big data" be "in-memory"?

The monikers of “big data” and “in-memory” are certainly hyped in the database world, but some people might argue that they don’t overlap. The terms are vague enough to be treated as mutually exclusive as well as mostly overlapping. In addition, “big data” often implies “data science” which means “not SQL” (based on some programmable framework like Map-Reduce, Spark, or Flink). How do we see th...