KDnuggets 10:n06: Is Privacy still possible online? KDD Cup 2010; KDD Workshops

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• KDD Cup 2010: Educational Data Mining
• KDD-2010 Workshops - calls for papers
• Next Neflix Prize cancelled due to privacy concerns
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• Predictive Analytics World: Save-the-Date and Call-for-Speakers

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Empirical evidence is that 80-90% of the claims made by epidemiologists are false; their claims do not replicate when retested under rigorous conditions. The net effect of ignoring multiple testing is to exploit randomness.

S. Stanley Young, National Institute of Statistical Sciences