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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"Public data"”.
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Building crime profiles from public data
… Thus, this study aims to find ways with which public data can be exploited and build crime profiles based on the documents and their entities related. The public data used is online news articles and blogs published by the same websites. With the use of Natural Language Processing techniques …
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Splinter : practical private queries on public data
… a system with servers that handle queries to the database, and clients that generate queries. I used DIMACS maps data and the Transit Node Routing (TNR) algorithm to obtain graph data hosted by the servers. Finally, I evaluated the performance of my system for practicality, and compared it to …
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Distilling Public Data from Multiple Sources for Cybersecurity Appplications
The amount of data being produced every day is growing at a very high rate, opening the door to new knowledge while also bringing forth cyber breach opportunities for malicious users. In this thesis, the objective is to analyze public data to gain valuable insight for cybersecurity applications. …
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The constant atlas : mapping public data for individuals and their cities
… capture, aggregate, and process an individual's data has grown significantly as digital technology has increasingly integrated into our daily lives. In the urban informatics context and in computational social science, projects use data collected about our behavior in the urban environment to …
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Breeding white storks in former East Prussia : comparing predicted relative occurrences across scales and time using a stochastic gradient boosting method (TreeNet), GIS and public data
… aus den Bereichen „Machine Learning“ und „Data-Mining“ (TreeNet, Salford Systems Ltd.). Unter Verwendung der historischen Habitat-Parameter sowie der Daten zum Vorkommen des Weißstorches wurden quantitative Modelle auf zwei Maßstabs-Ebenen erstellt: (i) auf Punktskala unter Verwendung eines …
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Ranking Resilience Attributes for Texas Public School Districts
… Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) in public school systems in the US, plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic, erasing years of improvements. In this body of research, we collect, integrate and analyze all available public data in the data science pipeline to see if public data can …
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Computational Methods for the Measurement of Protein-DNA Interactions
… to predict genomic locations is evaluated. Public data from a micro-fluidic experiment is used to fit a matrix model of binding specificity for a single transcription factor. Physical association and disassociation constants from the experiment enable a biophysical interpretation of the data …
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Structured Mining and Analysis of Public Energy Data to Evaluate, Improve and Assist the Execution of the UK’s Built Environment Energy Efficiency Policies
… high-coverage, high-quality and high-resolution public data to monitor, target and aid carbon reduction and energy efficiency policies. Despite significant improvements in the availability of data and information, we believe much of the public data is still under-utilised. Structured mining and …
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Building a Trustworthy Question Answering System for Covid-19 Tracking
… global pandemic of Covid-19, the general public is suffering from inaccurate Covid-19 related information including outdated information and fake news. The most used media: TV, social media, newspaper, and radio are incompetent in providing certitude and flash updates that people are …
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An analysis of commercial opportunities between Brazil and Russian Federation
… the governments. Through a series of analysis of public data on international trade between countries, literature and news review it is found that currently bilateral trade between Brazil and Russia is concentrated in a restricted number of products, mainly quasi-commodities. In order to stimulate …
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Impacts of Principal Coaching on Fostering Equitable School and District Practices
… their experiences supporting school leaders and public data reflecting school leader satisfaction and barriers in the role. Results highlight the changing role of the school principal and the importance of leading with equity and increasing their efficacy in supporting instruction. The data …
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MakeML : automated machine learning from data to predictions
… performance with models hand-built by trained data scientists. MakeML consists of a web-based application similar to a spreadsheet in which users select features and choose a target column to predict. MakeML then automates the process of feature engineering, model selection, training, and …
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Data for Housing Justice: Examining Activists’ Use of Open Government Data for Housing Justice in Boston, MA and New York, NY
… the world over have expanded access to public data through open government data (OGD) portals, from the local to national levels. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development describes OGD as a philosophy and a set of politics that aims to serve three social, political, and …
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Improving farmers' and consumers' welfare in agricultural supply chains via data-driven analytics and modeling : from theory to practice
… Unified Market Platform (UMP). Leveraging both public data and platform data, a difference-in-differences analysis in Chapter 2 suggests that the implementation of the UMP has significantly increased modal price of certain commodities (5.1%-3.5%), while prices for other commodities have not …
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Community Development for the 21st Century: Asset-building and the Resurgence of Pittsburgh
… and Lawrenceville. Through the analysis of public data sets and semi-structured interviews with the community development and local government professionals, evidence suggests that assetbuilding theories did influence redevelopment strategies and did produce meaningful revitalization in both …
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Natural Gas Development in Western Canada: A Gap Analysis
… a gap analysis demonstrating that current public data in Canada is insufficient to characterize the life cycle emissions and highlighted where the data is needed. Preliminary estimates suggest that the average US unconventional gas life cycle emissions are higher than those in Canada but …
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Facilitating Pharmacogenetic Association Studies Using an Extensible Genotype Information Management System
Large-scale genome data projects employing automated, high-throughput techniques have led to a deluge of genomic data that necessitate robust informatic solutions. COBRA-DB is an integrated web-based genome information management system that provides storage for pharmacogenomic information …
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Matching startup founders to investors : a tool and a study
… efficiency and equitability, while collecting data to inform further studies. We use this data, combined with public data on venture investments in the USA, to draw conclusions about the characteristics of venture financing rounds. Finally, we explore the communication data contributed to the …
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Hate Managers and Where They Target: An Analysis of Hate Crime as Hate Group Self-Help
… the county level for the state of Virginia using public data. I find that a hate group's presence holds greater predictive power than nearly any other factor for hate crime likelihood. My findings illustrate the nature of hate crime as a means of social control; whereby hate groups act as a …
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