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I’m for DHS’ visual analysis program, IF…
By WDavidStephenson | December 19, 2007
GCN reports DHS’s Science and Technology Directorate is continuing to use visual analytics, which has been criticized for its past application to real data, as an analytical tool dealing only with “synthetic data.”
I’ve been a persistent critic of DHS’ other data mining programs because of a litany of abuses of privacy rights and constant errors — with no process to clean them up. However, “if they’re serious about using this only as a modeling tool, with no actual personal data, my enthusiasm for data visualization as a tool for policy and data analysis wins the day, and I think it could lead to valuable insights! CONTINUED…
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