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Taking Back Ownership of Your Data

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The internet has long been a consummate environment for collecting immense amounts of data from large swathes of the population. With the increased use of cookies and other data mining tools, the internet is, essentially, a bottomless trove of useful data. This collected information is highly prized by companies and marketers, who. The post Taking Back Ownership of Your Data appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Detecting Network Attacks with Isolation Forests

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In this post, I will show you how to use the isolation forest algorithm to detect attacks to computer networks in python. The term isolation means separating an instance from the rest of the instances. Since anomalies are ‘few and different’ and therefore they are more susceptible to isolation.

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How Big Data Is Revolutionizing Sports

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Imagine you’re a quarterback and you’ve just stepped off the field. Your team has lost. You could look at it as a failure and call it a day – or you could look at it as an opportunity to improve. How? Embedded in your jersey are sensors that have tracked. The post How Big Data Is Revolutionizing Sports appeared first on Dataconomy.

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