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• Who's tracking you? Facebook users to get more control over data

  The social media site said if a user clears their off-Facebook activity, Facebook would remove the user's identifying information from the data that apps and websites choose to send.

• 'Five Eyes' security alliance calls for access to encrypted material

  The US-led "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance said on Tuesday that tech firms must allow law enforcement agencies access to encrypted material, warning that failing to do so puts people at risk.​

• SAS’s CEO-in-waiting lays out company's AI-driven future

  The CEO-in-waiting of analytics software firm SAS, Oliver Schabenberger, has set out the company’s strategy to help clients bring more automation to their data science and AI efforts, at an event in Sydney this morning.

• The self-service analytics market convergence is upon us

  Just a week after Google Cloud acquired analytics software company Looker for US$2.6 billion, Salesforce acquired Tableau for US$15.7 billion.

• ASX eyes growth from new data analytics platform offering

  ASX Limited, which operates the Australian Securities Exchange, is rolling out a data analytics platform to give its customers “access to data science and machine learning capabilities”.

• ​Is big data and artificial intelligence a (r)evolution in outsourcing?

  In recent years, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) have received overwhelming attention, however the interesting – even obvious – connection between the two hasn’t often been explored. It is the combination of big data and AI working together that is now enabling business leaders to deliver new insights, efficiencies and even new functions that haven’t been possible before. This is evident in the increasingly useful role big data and AI are playing in a broad spectrum of traditionally outsourced functions such as recruitment, HR, finance and supply chain, through to security and IT.

• How sports teams win big with data

  Big Data is a huge buzz word in the business world and why should it be any different in sport? Big Data is changing the rules of the game and is providing athletes with the winning edge.

• 5 reasons why businesses are adopting cloud analytics

  It’s no secret that cloud adoption is growing, with the cloud quickly becoming the home for more and more data and analytics solutions.

• Cloud BI: Going where the data lives

  Historically, cloud BI has been mostly used by smaller businesses, but larger enterprises are starting to make the trek.

• Data manipulation tricks: Even better in R

  Some Excel tips and tricks for manipulating dates, and for getting data into the format you need, are also ready for your R pleasure.

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