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Free-the-data movement meets privacy

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Back when data was little and simple, self-service analysis advocates started the chant, “Free the data!” IT stood in the way, they said. Fast forward to 2016: “democratized data” has become common, but so has public concern over privacy.

That nettlesome struggle drove a discussion that now stands as the data industry’s’ most important discussion of 2016. Around the conference table at last summer’s Pacific Northwest BI Summit — the annual, invitation-only confab held in Grants Pass, Oregon — two dozen data leaders pondered the issue for almost two hours. They concluded with an idea that broke open industry assumptions.

UK-based consultant Mike Ferguson told of a meeting held on continental Europe.… Read the rest “Free-the-data movement meets privacy”

As if our data didn’t have enough problems

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The assessment of worldwide threats issued yesterday by director of national intelligence James Clapper has one more topic for panel discussions at data-industry events. The Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community says the Ruskies, Chinese, and others will “almost certainly” try to do more with our data than to steal it.

Future cyber operations will almost certainly include an increased emphasis on changing or manipulating data to compromise its integrity (i.e., accuracy and reliability) to affect decisionmaking, reduce trust in systems, or cause adverse physical effects. Broader adoption of IoT devices and [artificial intelligence] — in settings such as public utilities and health care — will only exacerbate these potential effects.

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Create value with data by ending IT’s sequestration

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Just give business users the data. Don’t wait for perfection. Just hand it over, clean or not, and let it start creating value.

That’s the kernel of Blake Johnson’s advice to organizations who want to make use of data. He’s a Stanford University consulting professor and a Teradata academic. He has become a scholar of data analysts and data scientists.

“The whole idea of the unwashed masses having access to the data is totally new to some execs,” he told me last week. “A lot of people on the IT side still don’t buy it.”

I thought access to the masses had worked its way into the IT mind.… Read the rest “Create value with data by ending IT’s sequestration”