‘Essentials 4 Data Support’

Essentials of Count Data Regression

Chapter 5 Data Mining Essentials

Mountains of raw data are generated daily by individuals on social media. Around 6 billion photos are uploaded monthly to Facebook, the blogosphere doubles every five months, 72 hours of video are uploaded every minute to YouTube, and there are more than 400 million daily tweets on Twitter. With this unprecedented rate of content generation, individuals are easily overwhelmed with data and find...

Developer Essentials: Top Five Interventions to Support Secure Software Development

Executive Summary Cyber security is a big and increasing problem. Almost every week we hear of a new exploit or security breach that leads to major concerns about our digital infrastructure. Software systems are at the very heart of this digital infrastructure. Therefore, while there may be many commercial, social and practical factors that contribute, it is certain that the decisions of softwa...

Essentials for Modern Data Analysis Systems∗

Earth scientists need to perform complex statistical queries as well as mining queries such as outlier/pattern detection on very large multidimensional datasets produced by AIRS instrument. On top of that, the desired accuracy varies per application, user and/or dataset and it can well be traded-off for faster response time. Towards this end, we have designed and developed a data storage and re...

A Review of Privacy Essentials for Confidential Mobile Data Transactions

The increasingly rapid use of mobile devices for data transaction around the world has consequently led to a new problem, and that is, how to engage in mobile data transactions while maintaining an acceptable level of data privacy and security. While most mobile devices engage in data transactions through a data cloud or a set of data servers, it is still possible to apply data confidentiality ...