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The Incredibly Important Role Of Big Data In Academia

Smart Data Collective

According to a 2015 whitepaper published in Science Direct , big data is one of the most disruptive technologies influencing the field of academia. Big Data Management Process Diagram in Education. To structure the Big Data management processes in education, five interrelated groups of processes can be distinguished: 1.

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Encryption Importance in the Age of Data Breaches

Smart Data Collective

In late 2015, Google took the initiative and declared that it would favor sites with HTTPS protocol over those that still didn’t. However, with criminal elements using increasingly sophisticated technology to steal unencrypted passwords and states altering websites, wider use of encryption assumed greater significance.

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The Cloud is Spectacularly Transforming the Manufacturing Sector

Smart Data Collective

A 2015 study by the market research company IDC, which surveyed almost 600 manufacturing enterprises from 17 countries, discovered more than 90% of global companies are using cloud computing in some part of their operations. That is because most IP data breaches happen internally. Provides Greater Security.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

Based on figures from Statista , the volume of data breaches increased from 2005 to 2008, then dropped in 2009 and rose again in 2010 until it dropped again in 2011. After a marginal increase in 2015, another steep rise happened in 2016 through 2017 before the volume decreased in 2018 and rose in 2019, and dropped again in 2020.

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Are SMEs Equipped To Master Data Science?

Smart Data Collective

A 2015 paper by the World Economic Forum showed that big data might just be a fad. The article certainly raised a lot of controversy, considering the massive emphasis on the value of data technology. The article was not arguing that big data is going to go obsolete. However, the article raised some very valid points.

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Through the Looking Glass: Data Owners and Other Fallacies

The Data Administration Newsletter

I vividly remember reading this passage from Bob Seiner’s TDAN.com article “Things I Think I Think about Data Governance”, from August 1, 2015: If we were going to remove two words from the Data Governance vocabulary, I would choose the words “assign” and “owner.

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Transform with trusted data: How good governance accelerates your Data Culture

Tableau

This summer, we spoke with Pierre Guillaume (“PG”) Wielezynski, Chief of Digital Transformation Services at the World Food Programme, which has had a longstanding partnership with Tableau, starting in 2015. We talked about the organization’s data governance efforts.