Yahtzee: An Anonymized Group Level Matching Procedure

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 2; p. e55760
• Main Authors: Jones, Jason J., Bond, Robert M., Fariss, Christopher J., Settle, Jaime E., Kramer, Adam D. I., Marlow, Cameron, Fowler, James H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 05.02.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Artificial intelligence; Collaboration; Computer applications; Computer Science; Confidentiality; Data; Data Collection; Datasets; Humans; Medical research; Models, Statistical; Personal information; Political behavior; Political science; Politics; Privacy; Public opinion; Reproducibility of Results; Research Subjects; Researchers; Right of privacy; Social and behavioral sciences; Social networks; Social research; Social sciences; Theoretical analysis; Trusted third parties; Voter behavior; La Jolla California; Palo Alto California; California; United States > US

Researchers often face the problem of needing to protect the privacy of subjects while also needing to integrate data that contains personal information from diverse data sources. The advent of computational social science and the enormous amount of data about people that is being collected makes pr...