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Welcome To The Machine: Privacy And Workplace Implications Of Predictive Analytics, Robert Sprague
Welcome To The Machine: Privacy And Workplace Implications Of Predictive Analytics, Robert Sprague
Robert Sprague
Predictive analytics use a method known as data mining to identify trends, patterns, or relationships among data, which can then be used to develop a predictive model. Data mining itself relies upon big data, which is “big” not solely because of its size but also because its analytical potential is qualitatively different. “Big data” analysis allows organizations, including government and businesses, to combine diverse digital datasets and then use statistics and other data mining techniques to extract from them both hidden information and surprising correlations. These data are not necessarily tracking transactional records of atomized behavior, such as the purchasing …