Submitted Abstracts
Abstract by Chandler Fischbeck
Personal Infomation
Presenter's Name
Chandler Fischbeck
Co-Presenters
Michael McPeters
Degree Level
Undergraduate
Co-Authors
None
Abstract Infomation
Department
Statistics
Faculty Advisor
Dennis Tolley
Title
Creating and Using a Denumerated Data Set
Abstract
One of the consequences of the data analytics craze is that many organizations have become data hungry, buying or eliciting data from many sources. As a consequence, some data sets contain personal data that are viewed as sensitive or private by many individuals. This seeming digital invasion of privacy has prompted efforts to obfuscate individual data. The “Denumeration” algorithm is one such attempt to obfuscate data in a manner in which all individual information is removed but much or most of the aggregate information is retained for public use. This paper reviews the Denumeration algorithm and illustrates its use in comparing health outcomes of two cohorts using a synthetic matching algorithm based on denumerated data. Results are based on simulated cohorts and compared with results from complete, individual specific data.