Re: [Analytics] Geo-aggregation of Wikipedia page views: Maximizing geographic granularity while preserving privacy – a proposal

2015-05-13 Thread Priedhorsky, Reid
Hi folks, Reviving an old thread (my apologies for the delay). I’ve looked over this thread, the talk page linked below, and a few other places that seemed like they might have feedback for us. It seemed to me that key feedback, in addition to some technical suggestions, was: * Ratio of

Re: [Analytics] Geo-aggregation of Wikipedia page views: Maximizing geographic granularity while preserving privacy – a proposal

2015-01-13 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi Dario, Reid, This seems sensible enough and proposal #3 is clearly the better approach. An explicit opt-in opt-out mechanism would not be worth the effort to build and would become yet another ignored preferences setting after a few weeks... A couple of thoughts: * I understand the reasoning

[Analytics] Geo-aggregation of Wikipedia page views: Maximizing geographic granularity while preserving privacy – a proposal

2015-01-12 Thread Dario Taraborelli
I’m sharing a proposal that Reid Priedhorsky and his collaborators at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently submitted to the Wikimedia Analytics Team aimed at producing privacy-preserving geo-aggregates of Wikipedia pageview data dumps and making them available to the public and the research c