Open Data and Evidence-based Socio-economic Policy Research in India: An overview

Larquemin, Aurelie; Mukhopadhyay, Jyoti Prasad; Buteau, Sharon

doi:10.15353/joci.v12i2.3224

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“…Open data for researchers with background from different business domains results in a complete critical analysis as well as exploring the hidden benefits from the data at each level. It leads to solutions for medical, technical business, and most important of all, the good and open governance [11,[15][16][17][18][19].…”

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Open Data Release and Privacy Concerns: Complexity in Mitigating Vulnerability with Controlled Perturbation

Alam

Khan

Hassan

et al. 2021

Journal of Food Quality

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The benefits of open data were realised worldwide since the past decades, and the efforts to move more data under the license of open data intensified. There was a steep rise of open data in government repositories. In our study, we point out that privacy is one of the consistent and leading barriers among others. Strong privacy laws restrict data owners from opening the data freely. In this paper, we attempted to study the applied solutions and to the best of our knowledge, we found that anonymity-preserving algorithms did a substantial job to protect privacy in the release of the structured microdata. Such anonymity-preserving algorithms argue and compete in objectivethat not only could the released anonymized data preserve privacy but also the anonymized data preserve the required level of quality. K-anonymity algorithm was the foundation of many of its successor algorithms of all privacy-preserving algorithms. l-diversity claims to add another dimension of privacy protection. Both these algorithms used together are known to provide a good balance between privacy and quality control of the dataset as a whole entity. In this research, we have used the K-anonymity algorithm and compared the results with the addon of l-diversity. We discussed the gap and reported the benefits and loss with various combinations of K and l values, taken in combination with released data quality from an analyst’s perspective. We first used dummy fictitious data to explain the general expectations and then concluded the contrast in the findings with the real data from the food technology domain. The work contradicts the general assumptions with a specific set of evaluation parameters for data quality assessment. Additionally, it is intended to argue in favour of pushing for research contributions in the field of anonymity preservation and intensify the effort for major trends of research, considering its importance and potential to benefit people.

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