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State Medicaid Fraud Control Units' Data Mining Likely To Increase Through Federal Funding - Food, Drugs, Healthcare, Life Sciences - United States

State Medicaid Fraud Control Units' Data Mining Likely To Increase Through Federal Funding - Food, Drugs, Healthcare, Life Sciences - United States | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
18 Jun 2013 - United States - Food, Drugs, Healthcare, Life Sciences - State Medicaid Fraud Control Units' Data Mining Likely To Increase Through Federal Funding - Duane Morris LLP - The Office of Inspector General, U.S.
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States already strapped for funds are likely to take advantage of the federal matching funds and jump on the data mining bandwagon to help generate additional revenue.

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The Government Spies For Safety Reasons, But These 3 Small Cap Data Miners Are All About Profit

The Government Spies For Safety Reasons, But These 3 Small Cap Data Miners Are All About Profit | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
The NSA may be tracking your phone calls and emails, but if you want to know where the money is in data mining, look to the private sector.
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Data mining is the domain of more than just big name data brokers like Acxiom, Experian and Equifax - companies focusing on gathering and utilizing data number in the thousands. So with little regulation and ever increasing room to grow as the world's population spends more time online, data mining holds promise for investors.

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PRISM: Solving for X

PRISM: Solving for X | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
I thought it would be a fun exercise to describe PRISM  based on information publicly available through the press, private companies, and the DNI. Specifically, how would this system look if we too...
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While PRISM is potentially the least troubling with respect to its legality and the type/volume of information of the 4 programs we’ve learned about, it is also the most technically puzzling. There have been many theories on the architecture of PRISM and I’ve been inundated with requests to help press/advocates understand it — so here goes.

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Adopting Analytics Culture: What can be learned from social network analysis (SNA)?

Adopting Analytics Culture: What can be learned from social network analysis (SNA)? | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
PART 6 OF 7 IN A SERIES ON ADOPTING ANALYTICS CULTURE
LINK TO HEADER ARTICLE
LINK TO PREVIOUS ARTICLE (5 of 7)
6.    What particular information is gained from…
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However, it was revealed that thetrack record for corporate change management initiatives is quite poor.  It was proposed that two factors contribute to ineffective change management: 1) over-emphasizing the organizational chart, and 2) a lack of focus on relational interactions and networks.  Social network analysis (SNA) was proposed as a method for improving understanding of relational factors and engineering organizational network change.  This article goes into detail concerning the information that can be gleaned from SNA.

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#Hashtag For #Facebook [And More] Automatically

#Hashtag For #Facebook [And More] Automatically | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
With Facebook joining the ranks of Twitter, Google Plus and others with hashtag functionality, being strategic and consistent with hashtags across the social graph has become more important than ev...
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There is another unique factor on Facebook that needs to be considered. I call it the “Newbie Factor”. Facebook not only has the largest social network population in the world, it also has the largest inexperienced social media population in the world. You know, those consumers and SMB’s that have never been on Twitter or Google Plus and are not experienced with social media marketing, let alone hashtags. This could materialize as a massive opportunity for brands and marketers if done properly.

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Consumer codes scheme aims to improve customer confidence

Consumer codes scheme aims to improve customer confidence | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
Trading Standards Institute launches Consumer Codes Approval Scheme, as part of a wider government review of existing consumer legislation Rogue traders who break the law by ripping off customers with sub-standard work and shoddy services face...
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Nine industry codes currently exist, covering sectors such as the motor industry, solar power, mobility aids and debt, but areas which dominate consumer complaints and are likely to be added in the near future are double glazing, furniture and travel.

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At a Crossroads with Statistical Graphics

At a Crossroads with Statistical Graphics | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
the search for the best statistical graphics package: Do you use R lattice? ggplot2? Or both?
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As powerful as the lattice package is though, I found the learning painful. It seemed I could ultimately always do what I wanted, but not before, at times, pulling my hair out. Maybe it’s me, but the workings of lattice often seem mysterious, even with the support of package developer Deepayan Sarkar’s excellent text “Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization in R.” Today I’ll still come across lattice code posted somewhere and wonder where a feature I’d never seen before had been for 10 years

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Data Analysis: Zodiac Signs and Crime | Trends and Outliers

Data Analysis: Zodiac Signs and Crime | Trends and Outliers | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
Data analysis to determine if crime can be tied to a person’s zodiac or astrological sign.
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Well, Const. Michael Pearce, a police spokesman, used an Excel spreadsheet to classify the data of the 1,986 people arrested during the first 11 months of 2011. Then, to provide an interesting astrological perspective, Pearce applied an algorithm to the birth dates of all the arrestees.

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On the Sin of No Pride

On the Sin of No Pride | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
“You’re supposed to walk the labyrinth with a heavenly intention.” I try not to be That Guy Atheist. I don’t always make it--particularly in the presence of That Guy Christian--but I try. After all...
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It takes a certain amount of pride to say no to things you’ve done well in the past and yes to an exciting new project. It takes downright hubris to try truly amazing things that might fail–things like fight cancer with a social platform, things like building a statistical software platform for the Mac when it’s only 1989 and everyone else thinks you’re mad, things likebuild a search engine when there are already a thousand search engine companies.

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Twitter Analytics Quietly Rolls Out to All Users

Twitter Analytics Quietly Rolls Out to All Users | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
Both business and personal Twitter accounts now have access to the Twitter Analytics service, a valuable tool for content marketing on social media.
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Although Twitter decided not to announce its latest offering anywhere on the web, not much can happen on the popular social network without someone noticing. Two savvy marketers, Christopher Penn and Danny Olson, have pointed out that all users can now access Twitter Analytics, a service that was once only available to ad buyers, according to the Next Web.

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Microchips | Now You Can Build Google’s $1M Artificial Brain on the Cheap

Microchips | Now You Can Build Google’s $1M Artificial Brain on the Cheap | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
Andrew Ng wants to help usher in a new age of deep learning -- an emerging computer science field that seeks to mimic the human brain with hardware and software -- into the DIY era.
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“I hope that the ability to scale up using much less expensive hardware opens up another avenue for everyone around the world,” he says. “That’s the reason I’m excited — you can now build a 1-billion-connection model with $20,000 worth of hardware. It opens up the world for researchers to improve the performance of speech recognition and computer vision.”

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Retention Practices Lost in Shuffle of Handling Sensitive Enterprise Data

Retention Practices Lost in Shuffle of Handling Sensitive Enterprise Data | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
Protiviti survey finds IT and data leaders take a step back on retention systems, but move toward governance best practices and more off-site storage
Carla Gentry CSPO's insight:

38 percent of respondents have data retention policies with defined destruction dates (up 16 percent from 2012), and in terms of organizations with no real retention policy, or one that involves keeping information without a defined destruction date, survey results remained in the single-digit range. Most troubling to consultants at Protiviti were responses in two other categories, where organizations had either a “basic” or “detailed” classification system to define data, with varying retention policies and destruction dates depending on the classification. Basic system practitioners were down 9 percent from last year, representing one-quarter of survey respondents in 2013. Nineteen percent of respondents had detailed systems, a 10 percent drop from 2012 that reflects CIOs and IT leaders hampered by other issues to the point where they’re “not taking the best approach” with these critical data management and retention practices.


IT departments today are focused more and more on ‘fighting fires"!

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Media Release: Filling the big data skills gap

CFOworld.com.au covers accounting, risk management, taxation, technology and financial news from ASX-listed companies.
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Learning how to use this data is of crucial importance to learn about the behaviour of people, and the rationality of how we behave economically. We can use this as proper evidence for business decisions and for government policy. And it is data that is very up-to-date, so up-to-date that it can be used to anticipate or in some cases even predict human behaviour. Learning how to do that will be useful for any business or organisation

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Companies struggling with mobile optimisation: report

Companies struggling with mobile optimisation: report | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
Though almost three quarters of companies are planning to ramp up their spending on mobile channels this year, the complexities of providing an excellent customer experience on mobile is a challenge.
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Some companies are seeing much higher levels of mobile traffic. The proportion of respondents who say that more than 20% of their traffic can be attributed to mobile has more than doubled in the last 12 months, from less than a fifth (17%) in 2012 to 41% this year

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Phillips: Obama administration’s use of data mined information

Phillips: Obama administration’s use of data mined information | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
What is the question no one is asking about the NSA spying scandal?
Carla Gentry CSPO's insight:

Thanks to technology, privacy is almost extinct. We now have corporations that, with their data mining operations, often know more about you than you know about yourself.

Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/judson-phillips-cold-hard-truth/2013/jun/17/obama-administrations-use-data-mined-information-l/#ixzz2WazwFr6H ;
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Big data skills scarce among marketing pros, business users

Big data skills scarce among marketing pros, business users | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
If you think about it for a moment, you soon realize that the advantages of many of the newer tools from BI to big data are diminished if IT or data scientists become bottlenecks in their use.
Carla Gentry CSPO's insight:

However, converting the use of these tools into a self-service model is trickier business than many anticipate--not so much from the technology side, but from the user side.

Read more: Big data skills scarce among marketing pros, business users - FierceBigData http://www.fiercebigdata.com/story/big-data-skills-scarce-among-marketing-pros-business-users/2013-06-17#ixzz2WaRxtguS ;
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Yahoo reveals US government made 13,000 requests for user data | ZDNet

Yahoo reveals US government made 13,000 requests for user data | ZDNet | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
The company joins Microsoft, Facebook and Apple in publishing data on surveillance requests coming from law enforcement agencies.
Carla Gentry CSPO's insight:

Yahoo said that between 1 December 2012 and 31 May 2013, it received between 12,000 and 13,000 requests, "inclusive of criminal, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and other requests", and said the most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, kidnappings, and other criminal investigations.

However, echoing Twitter and Google, Yahoo also called on the US government to allow FISA requests — the most controversial ones because the US government insists in secrecy around them — to be reported separately

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Comment on Google Engineer Thinks We’ll Be Immortal Soon by bakeca Agrigento

Comment on Google Engineer Thinks We’ll Be Immortal Soon by bakeca Agrigento | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
very nice post….interesting topic
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There’s already fantastic therapies to overcome heart disease, cancer and every other neurological disease based on this idea of reprogramming the software. These are all examples of treating biology as software…These technologies will be a 1000 times more powerful than they were a decade ago…These will be 1,000 times more powerful by the end of the decade. And a million times more powerful in 20 years.

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Cloud | Amazon’s Invasion of the CIA Is a Seismic Shift in Cloud Computing

Cloud | Amazon’s Invasion of the CIA Is a Seismic Shift in Cloud Computing | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
The rumors are true. In mid-March, word arrived by way of a publication called FCW that Amazon, the king of cloud computing, had inked a contract with the Central Intelligence Agency to provide $600 million in cloud services over the ...
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You see, the GAO ruling on the matter reveals that the contract involves Amazon building cloud services inside CIA data centers. “The contractor generally was to provide a copy of its existing public cloud (modified where necessary) to be installed on government premises,” the GAO ruling explains. That may seem like a small thing, but in the world of cloud computing, it’s a seismic event.

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Corning Invests in Perhaps the Biggest Smart Device Yet: View’s Intelligent Glass

Corning Invests in Perhaps the Biggest Smart Device Yet: View’s Intelligent Glass | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
Milpitas, Calif.-based View makes something called "dynamic glass," which adjusts its tint automatically based on how bright the light is, and can also be wirelessly controlled from an app.
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If you look at the intersection of data and digital things, this is right in the middle of that,” he said. “We can use complex algorithms and sensing to set the conditions to meet user comfort, and you’re also able to intelligently control to your needs.

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Swedish vacation

Swedish vacation | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
Dear Readers, I hope you know I miss you as much as you miss me. For the past few days I've been in sunny friendly Stockholm. In my defense, I'm suffering badly from jetlag. Since I left New York l...
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Not that I’m complaining, exactly – the Swedish people I’ve met are incredibly nice. So nice in fact that it’s almost become a personal challenge I’ve given myself to see what makes them tick.

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Apple Claims It Encrypts iMessages And Facetime So That Even It Can't Read Them

Apple Claims It Encrypts iMessages And Facetime So That Even It Can't Read Them | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
In the wake of the revelation of the National Security Agency's PRISM surveillance program, tech companies have scrambled to counter claims that they give the government direct backdoor access to their servers.
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Apple has always placed a priority on protecting our customers’ personal data, and we don’t collect or maintain a mountain of personal details about our customers in the first place,” reads a statement it published late Sunday night on its website.  ”There are certain categories of information which we do not provide to law enforcement or any other group because we choose not to retain it. For example, conversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them. Apple cannot decrypt that data.

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Distractions | Google Glass Is Great for Toddlers. Seriously.

Distractions | Google Glass Is Great for Toddlers. Seriously. | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
If you really want to test a new gadget, take it on vacation. That’s what I did with Google Glass, and the result was revelatory.
Carla Gentry CSPO's insight:

Let me say up front: I’m wary of giving my two-year-old access to technology. We try to keep her away from screens as much as possible, which is tough because she’s fascinated by these things her parents are always fiddling with. Mostly she likes to look at pictures. Despite her limited time spent with them, she can dive right into my iPhone and Nexus 4 and start scrolling through the pictures. But she can’t take the photos herself. Well, not of anything she wants to.

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Google Announces Big Data Plan To Eradicate Child Porn

Google Announces Big Data Plan To Eradicate Child Porn | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
For all the benefits it brings to the world, the internet also has a much darker side to it that only causes harm.
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Aware that child porn is a growing problem, Google has announced plans to try and curb its growth. Ultimately, the world’s biggest search engine is hopeful that it can eliminate child porn from the web altogether.

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Big Data: Rethinking the Platform

Big Data: Rethinking the Platform | Data Nerd's Corner | Scoop.it
With so many questions to answer, IT infrastructure teams will need to work with a wide range of other IT professionals in order to build big data platforms.
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The translation process, however, is cumbersome and time-consuming. That drives up costs and slows down the crucial, time-sensitive insights that the new data inputs were supposed to deliver. Sticking with the old is a solution that is neither economically feasible nor strategically

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