In 2012, in collaboration with Google Research and Development Center in Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) had launched the ‘Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library’, a website that allows viewing and searching the Dead Sea Scrolls online....
The National Security Agency (NSA) is harvesting millions of photos posted online everyday as part of its global surveillance program. Digital images captured from social media, emails, text messages, and other communication portals are analyzed with a view to facial...
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system (digital currency) that has attained wide popularity in the last couple of years. Two years back, the value of a bitcoin was around $5. But today, its value has increased to around $600. An economist, Ladislav Kristoufek at the...
Customer data breach is raising concerns for many organizations. A recent incident happened at Target makes it clear that data breaches not only affect the staff group, but higher officials as well. The latest victim is Target’s chief executive, Gregg...
Young adults and teenagers with special needs face unique challenges. Once they complete high school requirements, it’s important that they be equipped with skills that will help them get a job. Training students for jobs and for independent living should be...
Epidemic outbreaks that spread rapidly pose serious threats at all times. Its early detection helps in preventing the spread of infectious diseases if there is an outbreak. Latest studies claim that data mining search engines, aggregator websites and social media...
Analyzing raw information to try and find useful patterns and trends in it is not easy to accomplish. As new tools and technologies emerge, data mining is becoming an expensive process. There are several costs involved in the process. The data has to be cleaned and...
Data mining or data discovery is a concept that businesses use to acquire and analyze specific information about their market – the relationship between behaviors and variables – and use it to their best advantage. Mining is successfully applied in sectors such...
Data mining (DM) has helped improve healthcare forecasting, investigation, and visualization. Despite privacy and security issues pertaining to patient data, health care organizations are finding that mining patient data and community data offers value and helps in...
