Big Data for Security and Resilience
Report on the Conference ‘Big Data for Security and Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Generation of Policy-Makers’, March 2014
This report, on the fourth STFC-funded conference ‘Big Data for Security and Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Generation of Policy-Makers’, held in March 2014, highlights some of the technical challenges, as well as the range of opportunities, that Big Data presents to policy-makers.
Contents
Foreword
Bryan Edwards
Introduction: Machine Learning for Big Data
Alex Gammerman and Jennifer Cole
I. The National Archives, Big Data and Security: Why Dusty Documents Really Matter
Tim Gollins
II. Trends in Big Data: Key Challenges for Skills
Harvey Lewis
III: Big Data and Financial Transactions: Providing New Means of Analysis
Gregory Mandoli
IV. Characteristics of Terrorist Finance Networks: The Human Element
Neil Bennett
V: Terrorism and Political Risk Modelling
Mark Lynch
VI: Intelligent Use of Electronic Data to Enhance Public Health Surveillance
Edward Velasco
VII: The Raxibacumab Experience: The First Novel Product Approved Under the US Food and Drug Administration ‘Animal Rule’
Chia-Wei Tsai
Discussion Groups:
The Ethics and Legality of Big Data Sharing
Policing, Terrorism, Crime and Fraud
Health Data, Public Health and Public Health Emergencies
Individual Privacy Versus Community Safety
Research Themes Identified in the Presentations and Discussion Groups