Hi all,
Our next meeting will be *Wednesday February 5*, where Gary King will
present research on* “Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy Protected
Data”.*
*Abstract:* Unprecedented quantities of data that could help social
scientists understand and ameliorate the challenges of human society are
presently locked away inside companies, governments, and other
organizations, in part because of worries about privacy violations. We
address this problem with a general-purpose data access and analysis system
with mathematical guarantees of privacy for individuals who may be
represented in the data, statistical guarantees for researchers seeking
insights from it, and protection for society from some fallacious
scientific conclusions. We build on the standard of "differential
privacy''
but, unlike most such approaches, we also correct for the serious
statistical biases induced by privacy-preserving procedures, provide a
proper accounting for statistical uncertainty, and impose minimal
constraints on the choice of data analytic methods and types of quantities
estimated. Our algorithm is easy to implement, simple to use, and
computationally efficient; we also offer open source software to illustrate
all our methods.
Slides and paper here
<https://gking.harvard.edu/presentations/statistically-valid-inferences-privacy-protected-data-harvard-university-applied>
.
*Where:* CGIS Knafel Building, Room K354 (see this link
<https://map.harvard.edu/?bld=04471&level=9> for directions).
*When: *Wednesday, February 5 at 12 noon - 1:30 pm.
All are welcome and lunch will be provided.
Best,
Georgie
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