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Database Data Mining: The Silent Invasion of Privacy Database Data Mining: The Silent Invasion of Privacy Dustin Johnson University of Maryland University College As coined in an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Aisha Sultan, “Data is the new world currency.” Data mining is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and then summarizing it into useful information. In essence is it applying all different types of what if scenarios on large swaths of data to get possible

term data warehousing generally refer to the combination of many different databases across an entire enterprise. (webopidia) In today’s society businesses accumulate all the data they can gather into the data warehouse, from which they can do data mining. This means that when we go to the grocery store and use our “saver card”, to get the tiny percent off, that store automatically tracks what you purchased and then enters it into their data warehouse. This allows the businesses to later go through

assuredly lie underneath the superficial surface. The PRISM program, launched by the National Security Agency and leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, is such a creature. According to the Washington Post article “NSA Slides Explain the PRISM Data-Collection Program”, it is a clandestine mass surveillance program that essentially deputizes server-providing corporations such as Microsoft, Apple, and Google among many others, to amass data for data mining purposes. Furthermore, the packets of data

representative or random sample could speak for the whole population. The only problem was that when stakeholders wanted to drill down into the details they inevitably had to query the whole file. The reality is that data scientists run various data mining techniques and various algorithms that can accommodate both large and small files. However, companies may want to consider examining and cleansing the data they collect before running their analyses. This brings up the question of whether or not big

powerful look into the tumultuous, tragedy-riddled lives of 19th century French coal miners. Forced to endure hellish conditions, risk death and dismemberment, and work from before dawn until after dusk, these men and women had only one alternative to mining: starvation. Germinal is not a happy story, but it is impossible not to sense the realism that pervades the project. The film opens with the arrival of Etienne Lantier (Renaud) at the Voreux coal mine. An out-of- work machinist, Etienne is willing

South Carolina’s commercial gold mining began in 1829, two years after the first discovery of gold in the area [1]. Mining continued with variations in productivity until World War II, when all gold mining was abandoned until renewed interest during the 1980s [1]. Figure 1., seen above, shows the amount of gold produced per year in troy ounces per year and the percentage of total US gold production [2]. Overall, gold production increases with time as newer mining techniques increase efficiency. In

are high amongst the First Nation and Imperial Metals; however, great strides have been made by the B.C Ministry of Environment to help easy these tensions. Apart from Imperial Metals, Shell and Fortune Minerals have also been trying to establish mining installations. The BC government managed to deter Shell away from the Sacred Headwaters by promising the banning of all Oil and Gas companies access to the land. Shell had planned to develop multiple fracking sites, coupled with

The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 provided compensation for miners who were permanently disabled by pneumoconiosis. Pneumoconiosis is a occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of dust. In Sago, West Virginia on January 2nd of 2006 there was a coal mine explosion that would trap thirteen miners for barely two days. Of the thirteen miners, only one survived. The only survivor, Randal McCloy, was in critical condition with a collapsed lung and dehydration. Miraculously, he had

Coal Mining Would You do it? Did you know 33 Chilean coal miners got trapped in a coal mine for 69 days in 2010? Even though coal is a very important fossil and plays a big role in electricity in the United States of America. It can be very dangerous. Mining has been on the list of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Even though cost of coal is low and availability of coal is high. Would you do it? First, no I would not want to put my health at risk. I would not want to do this

My one best question about asbestos is, who does one go to about reporting an asbestos violation? I would direct this question towards a human resources department or a union representative. I think Zonolite Company and W.R. Grace and Company are both at blame for the asbestos contamination, illnesses and fatalities at Libby. Both had employees who developed illnesses and fatalities from the job. I would say that W.R. Grace and Company would be more at fault because even though they claimed they