[Popcon-developers] mining popcon data
Bill Allombert
Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr
Fri Jul 30 09:10:21 UTC 2010
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 06:38:30PM -0300, Tássia Camões wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm thinking of applying some data mining techniques for debian data and I
> wonder if I could have access to popcon data set.
> I'd like to have it just after anonymizing step, but preserving the set of
> packages sent by each user.
> Would it be possible?
Generally, the answer is no, because data mining would violate the privacy expectation of the
user. For example, you could use data-mining to desanonymize partially the data.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>
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