Use data mining techniques to detect fraud
The basic premise of Benford's Law is that certain leading digits in any random set of data will appear in a specific non-uniform manner or in a certain frequency -- anything that is outside that frequency indicates a non-compliant anomaly. There are some great tools out there that can let you apply Benford's Law to your data, including Microsoft Excel.
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80legs Inc. has officially launched its service, which brings supercomputer-scale data mining of the Web to companies, and even individuals.
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Business intelligence software may have been around for several decades, but it remains an esoteric niche in most companies, according to an analyst.
MySpace to open source in-house data analysis technology
MySpace on Tuesday will release as open source a technology called Qizmt that it developed in-house to mine and crunch massive amounts of data and generate friend recommendations in its social-networking site.
White House set to unleash 100,000 federal data sources via data.gov
The U.S. plans to make more than 100,000 data sources available by the end of next week on its data.gov site, in what may be the real start of government's effort to share its vast database with the world.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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