- Date: November 13, 2021
- Categories: Data
A data lake is simply a large repository of data that is unstructured and un analysed that can receive contributions from many different sources, whether structured data from business processes or unstructured data from the Internet of Things (IoT) and social media. Users of the data can examine and sample whatever they want. Businesses that have used data lakes have been shown to improve organic sales growth by 9% by being able to perform better data analytics on their data (Lock).
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- Date: November 13, 2021
- Categories: Data
In a bid to increase the amount of data available in Europe to compete with Asia and America, the European Commission introduced the idea of “data altruism”. Commissioner Thierry Breton has stated: "With the ever-growing role of industrial data in our economy, Europe needs an open yet sovereign single market for data,". Europe’s proposed Data Governance Act will allow business and research organisations to tap the potential of such vast data volumes.
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Being online is one of the biggest threats to data privacy. Websites, browsers and search engines track what you do online, the main aim being to target advertising to match what your interests. By tracking and collecting all your keystrokes, web sites and pages that you visit as well items that you buy, machine learning algorithms can build a profile of you. This profile may include assumptions about your politics, religion, health, interests and financial standing.
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