A recent phishing attack on Office 365 compromised SharePoint files across many organizations that use the Microsoft productivity suite. This was hardly the only attack on enterprises in the past year.
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Why Marketing and IT Need to Collaborate on Data Quality
Shortly after I started working in the technology industry in the mid-2000s, I had the unique opportunity to work with a pioneer of online travel.
Continue reading...Ignore This Unexpectedly Bad Data Advice
Organizations today run on data. Data has the power to drive everything from product development to marketing, delivering critical insights needed to steer departments and entire organizations forward.
Continue reading...How to Obtain Consent, Remain GDPR-Compliant and Not Alienate Your Customers
The GDPR is in full swing for the European Union (EU), and that means more work for brands processing the data of EU citizens. But it doesn’t always mean more work regarding obtaining consent for such data processing — if you’ve already done so in a GDPR-compliant manner.
Continue reading...How to Obtain Consent, Remain GDPR-Compliant and Not Alienate Your Customers
The GDPR is in full swing for the European Union (EU), and that means more work for brands processing the data of EU citizens. But it doesn’t always mean more work regarding obtaining consent for such data processing — if you’ve already done so in a GDPR-compliant manner.
Continue reading...Machine Learning Datasets: Build Or Buy?
IFI CLAIMS Patent Services has a global patent database with more than 110 million records from about 100 countries that the company has painstakingly assembled over the years.
Continue reading...How Far Beyond Facebook Does Data Harvesting Go?
The fallout from the Facebook data harvesting scandal continued last week, with the announcement that Cambridge Analytica, the company accused of harvesting data from personal Facebook accounts to inform Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, announced it was shutting down. In a statement from the London-based Cambridge Analytica, the company said
Continue reading...Google Analytics Data Retention: A New Feature for Keeping Data Safe
As they assess the fallout of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica difficulties and prepare for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), data analytics practitioners have shifted from looking for new ways to collect and analyze data to thinking about how long data should be retained.
Continue reading...Data Is a Big Deal, So Treat It That Way
“In God we trust, all others must bring data.” — often attributed to W. Edwards Deming Data is the foundation for all that organizations do in business and how they interact with their customers. Data is proliferating, and that proliferation is going to continue exponentially.
Continue reading...5 Communication Skills Every Data Scientist Needs
It pays to be a data scientist, and not just financially. Data scientists have the best jobs according to Glassdoor’s 50 Best Jobs in America for 2018 report, which marks the third year it took top honors.
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