Search Results - subject:"Data Collection"

Generalized trust, need for cognitive closure, and the perceived acceptability of personal data collection

Chavanne, David - In: Games 9 (2018) 2, pp. 1-18

acceptability of contemporary business methods of personal data collection. Subjects are exposed to four scenarios that describe a … method of personal data collection, involving either brand-name companies or generic descriptors of companies. After each … scenario, subjects rate how acceptable they find the practice of data collection, along with the frequency and quality of …

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Computer security for data collection technologies

Cobb, Camille; Sudar, Samuel; Reiter, Nicholas; … - In: Development Engineering 3 (2018), pp. 1-11

Many organizations in the developing world (e.g., NGOs), include digital data collection in their workflow. Data … use Open Data Kit (ODK), a prominent digital data collection platform. We conduct a detailed threat modeling exercise to …

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Alumni Surveys as a Data Collection Methodology

Eesley, Charles E. - 2018

The use of alumni surveys as a data collection methodology for empirical studies of innovation and entrepreneurship is …

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An Economic Analysis of Privacy Protection and Statistical Accuracy as Social Choices

Abowd, John M. - 2018

Statistical agencies face a dual mandate to publish accurate statistics while protecting respondent privacy. Increasing privacy protection requires decreased accuracy. Recognizing this as a resource allocation problem, we propose an economic solution: operate where the marginal cost of...

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Emptying the Tank : Getting the Most Out of Limited Data

Taylor, M. Scott - 2018

data's valuable implications, but also the marginal value of further data collection. An illustration using home heating …

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The Need for Increased Transparency and Public Scrutiny in the World of Congressional Campaign Voter Data Collection

Young, Andrew - 2018

first step of the data-driven campaigning process: data collection. While the growing trove of literature on data …

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The Rise of Cloud Computing : Minding Your P’S, Q's and K's

Byrne, David - 2018

Cloud computing—computing done on an off-site network of resources accessed through the Internet—is revolutionizing how computing services are used. However, because cloud is so new and it largely is an intermediate input to other industries, it is difficult to track in the U.S. statistical...

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Data Ownership

Scassa, Teresa - 2018

The rapid expansion of the data economy raises serious questions about who “owns” data, and what data “ownership” entails. In most jurisdictions, data that are kept confidential can be protected as confidential information. However, such data are vulnerable to exposure through hacking or...

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Analysis of the Mismatch between Tanzania Household Budget Survey and National Panel Survey Data in Poverty and Inequality Levels and Trends

Hassine Belghith, Nadia - 2018

noticeable differences in the methods of household consumption data collection, the Household Budget Survey and National Panel …

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Welfare Implications of Proprietary Data Collection : An Application to Telematics in Auto Insurance

Reimers, Imke - 2018

Concerns about anti-competitive effects of proprietary data collection have motivated recent European data portability … laws. We investigate such concerns and search for evidence of direct benefits of data collection in the context of Pay How …

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