Craig Schein, Author at IRI

Searching and Masking Unstructured File Data with DarkShield

by Craig Schein

This article is part of a series explaining how to use DarkShield and its many functions.

The IRI DarkShield data masking product uses fit-for-purpose facilities in the IRI Workbench IDE to search (classify) and mask (remediate) sensitive ”dark data” (as defined by Gartner) in many semi and unstructured data sources — including JSON, XML,free-form text files, PDFs, MS Office documents, and images. Read More

Big Data

How to Find and Mask PII in Elasticsearch

by Craig Schein

Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine that has an HTTP interface and stores its data in schema-free JSON documents. Unfortunately, a spate of costly and painful breaches of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) continue to plague online Elasticsearch databases:

Were all the PII or other sensitive information in these DBs masked however, successful hacks and development copies may not be problematic. Read More

Business Intelligence (BI)

How to Install KNIME and the Voracity Node in…

by Craig Schein

This article covers installation of the KNIME Analytics Platform as a core feature in the IRI Workbench IDE for Voracity, built on Eclipse, as well as the IRI Voracity Data Provider, or Job Source, node for KNIME described in this article. Read More

Business Intelligence (BI)

Machine Learning in Cancer Prediction: A Voracity-KNIME Use Case

by Craig Schein

In predictive analytics, machine learning involves training a computer to evaluate data sets and create prediction models from trends it finds in the data. Machine learning builds off traditional statistics and creates larger and more advanced models faster than a person ever could. Read More

Big Data

Speeding KNIME with Voracity

by Craig Schein

Abstract

KNIME is a leading open source analytic and visualization tool for data scientists. Wrangling raw data for KNIME projects is usually done via their intermediate file node, database connectors, or other extensions like Spark. Read More

Business Intelligence (BI)

Data Wrangling for Oracle Visualization Desktop

by Craig Schein

Oracle Data Visualization Desktop, Oracle DV or DVD for short, is business intelligence (BI) software that can organize, aggregate, and visualize data for informational outcomes. What seems to make this BI software unique is its ability to create slideshow presentations from its different visualizations. Read More

Business Intelligence (BI)

Speeding Time-to-Display in Power BI

by Craig Schein

Power BI is a business analytics and data visualization package from Microsoft that can provide custom-designed dashboards and reports ready for web or mobile display. Like other BI and analytic tools, Power BI can also perform simple data wrangling jobs like sorting and aggregation before and after the data are displayed. Read More

Data Masking/Protection

PII (Age/Date) Blurring in IRI FieldShield

by Craig Schein

Adding ‘random noise’ to data through blurring or perturbation is a data common anonymization requirement for researchers and marketers of protected health information (PHI) seeking to comply with the HIPAA Expert Determination Method security rule. Read More

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