Crime Data Sources in the United States: The collection of crime data in the United States is carried out through different approaches including Uniform Crime Reports and the National Incident-Based Reporting System, which also act as the two primary sources of crime data for crime reporting. The data obtained from these sources are used for research and documentation of crime status at the county, state, and national levels. Notably, the National Incident-Based Reporting System emerged as an advancement
quantitative data and relevant business intelligence, is available to businesses and business partners. This new form of information is known as “big data,” which according to Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier is not merely the ownership of large amounts of data, but also the “ability of society [including businesses] to harness information in novel ways to produce useful insights or goods and services of significant value.” A key example given by Cukier and Mayer in their book Big Data, is the
generate quantitative data is official statistics. Official statistics provide both primary and secondary information, however for sociologists it provides on a secondary basis as they are already available to the public and have been retrieved by civil servants or public bodies -such as the government (Home Office), educational institutions (SQA) and health boards (NHS) and large charities. Official statistics can come in the form of either unemployment rates, death and birth dates, crime rates or marriage
The Escalation of Computer Hacking Crimes The advancement of computer technology makes the world easier place to live by facilitating the fields of science, medicine, and education. Although computers benefit us from many aspects, they also have negative implications. Many criminals use the computer to take or alter data, and to gain unlawful access of computers, by using computer worms, viruses, and Trojans. Which has posed new challenges for the government and the society. Due to the
it is essentially a connected set of elements produced by people and managed through computers which allows the collection and distribution of data, to summarise the term it is generally a database. Data is a plural for datum which are elementary recognisable facts, information is datas that has been correlated so that context is formulated. To interpret data security, it is an assortment of facts which is translated to information secure on an encrypted server due to its personal state. In addition
The Serious Societal Concern of Data Breaching: Which Current laws address this issue and and Areas of Improvement and Concern Summary of Event and Data Breaching Amongst almost millions of others, I was one of the T-Mobile customers whose account had customer data stolen from it in 2014. My personal data including my birthday, home address, driver license number, and full name was amongst important information stolen. I was at that time, grateful that at least my credit card information was
INFORMATION Personal identifying information can be defined as any information that can be used to distinguish directly or indirectly, trace and link to a specific person irrespective of whether the information is the primary or in combination with other data (Sebastian, 2013). Breaches involving PII such as identity theft are hazardous both to individuals as well as to organizations. Disclosure of sensitive PII without the primary authority of the concerned party may lead to substantial damage, embarrassment
connected, able to contact almost anyone from anywhere, and they have access to the biggest source of information in their pockets. But, people seem to forget one thing - how much data technology creates. Facebook statuses, photo albums, videos, tweets - when reminded, most of people will remember these. But they are not the only data created. For example, Facebook stores information about all activities their users do. They store all messages, even deleted ones, they store all information about all logins
it’s probably wrong. Three out of four murder victims knew their assailants; about seven of 10 rape victims knew theirs. While the public is justifiably horrified when a stranger snatches a child off the street, the data show that such kidnappings are extremely rare. As for the crime of identity theft, most of us fear nameless, faceless perpetrators—say, a far-off ring of teenage hackers. We try to thwart them by endlessly changing our PINs (and forgetting them). But it turns out that nearly half
I attended a live performance of Disenchanted on April 23rd, 2017 at the Boulder Dinner Theatre. Book, lyrics and music were written, composed and lyricized by Dennis T. Giancio. Disenchanted tells a story about the classic Disney fairytale princesses, but takes a more satirical, feminist approach about each of the flaws of each Disney princess. The Disney writers presented the princesses in an unrealistic and unnatural way by over feminizing them and attempting to dim their racial/ethnic background
virtual self, by Nora Young is a book about self-tracking, the obsessive recording of the daily life online. The obsession with data. How is this data is altering the world. Many People are obsessed with this data. Sometime you don’t even notice that you are gathering a lot of data. Data can be pictures online, having a smartphone nowadays is enough to gather the data for you, Google android if enabled, has a website where you can see what do you do daily by showing you your journey, where you
about the basic descriptive data elements that are needed to answer the question I previously posed, it is important to understand what we mean by descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics describe the features of the data collected. In other words, descriptive statistics describe “what” the data looks like, but it does not tell you why or how data elements interact or influence one another. Descriptive statistics provide a defender with summaries about the data collected and these summaries
with my professors and professionals linked with oil and gas industry, I chose Geophysics as my area of interest for my graduation. I was then recruited by BGP International (one of the major Geological and Geophysical servicing company) as a Seismic Data Processing Geophysicist in 2009. The job required me to travel extensively across Pakistan as well as abroad and I provided project management solutions to large-scale EPC projects ranging up-to US$ 100 million. This en...
having stroke, females are more likely to die of strokes.1 Using a descriptive analysis on the stroke mortality data sets from the Center of Disease Control Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC Wonder), data was gathered on race, age, sex, geographic distribution, and incidence in a ten-year period. The stroke morality data was across a ten-year period, 2000-2010. The data examined only deaths categorized as I63.9, Cerebral Infraction, Unspecific and underlying cause of death, which
the web for targeting customers based on their likes. This paper also covers the issues and concerns of data mining, and the privacy of online consumers. I will explain how personal information is obtained, and what purposes it is used for. I will also cover ways in which we can control how our information is being handled, and how to keep information out of other people’s hands. Keywords: data mining The Internet and Online Marketing Has online marketing gone too far? The privacy of consumers has
Women are weighing the importance of economic contribution they make to the household. The actual count of economically active married women is much more than aggregate level data would indicate. The great change had taken place when the machines were brought into use. Women were employed in factories. 1.4 Meaning and definitions of entrepreneurship There were different definitions given by different authors tried. Some of the definitions are given below. According to
and its data as well. A cloud service differs from traditional hosting in three different ways. These three differences are that cloud computing is elastic, it is sold on demand, and the service is managed by the provider of the cloud. The easiest way to explain what cloud computing does is that it stores and gives access to different data and programs over the internet rather than just your computer’s hard drive. For it to be actually considered cloud computing it must include data or programs
checking in, baggage claim, boarding the place, and even used when flying. The hardware, which are mainly computers are everywhere and used to confirm people’s flights. The software on these computers is essential for allowing people into the airport. Data is everywhere, from the monitor screens around the
has raised concerns in the loss of control over data as well as privacy and security. The idea of handing over important data to another client, worries many. With Cloud Computing continue to gain popularity, client and user are showing sign of over reliance to it. Hence, it is important to know these concerns and the inherent risks associated with it. The underlying risks exist in the area of security and privacy are loss of control over data and dependency on the service providers. These can
Mark Benioff of Salesforce.com once said, "The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work." These are powerful words and so true of the world that we currently live in. Still, I also understand how hard it is to let go of the world we once lived in and