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Five essential pillars of big data GDPR compliance

Less than a year from now, on May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in the European Union. GDPR represents a significant change in how data will be handled around the world.

In the United States, the 2017 GDPR Preparedness Pulse Survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers polled C-suite executives from large American multinationals and showed that U.S. companies are overwhelmingly aware of, and concerned with, GDPR regulations.

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Unified analytics: A new mastery over the data wave

May/June 2015 Web First By David Zakkam and Ankesh Aggrawal Data is exploding. And it is not necessarily a good thing. Organizations feel like they are “drinking water from the

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Electoral College put to the math test


With the campaign two months behind us and the inauguration of Donald Trump two days away, isn’t it time to put the 2016 U.S. presidential election to bed and focus on issues that have yet to be decided? Of course not.

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Dark analytics: Shedding light on a new business asset



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Study: Salaries for early career data scientists decrease for first time

Salaries for early career data scientists decreased year over year for the first time in four years as did the percentage of early career data scientists with a Ph.D. while demand for data scientists continued to increase, according to a recently released Burtch Works’ 2017 salary study of data scientists. Salaries for more experienced data scientists generally held steady or increased slightly depending on an individual’s focus area, responsibility and geographic base, according to the report. Read more →

Generous health insurance plans encourage overtreatment, but may not improve health

Offering comprehensive health insurance plans with low deductibles and co-pay in exchange for higher annual premiums seems like a good value for the risk averse, and a profitable product for insurance companies. But according to a forthcoming study in a leading scholarly marketing journal, the INFORMS journal Marketing Science, such plans can encourage individuals with chronic conditions to turn to needlessly expensive treatments that have little impact on their health outcomes. This in turn raises costs for the insurer and future prices for the insured. Read more →

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