I recently attended a conference titled "Music and Death" in Vienna, Austria. While the conference was attended by mostly academics, it had a very different feel to what I was used to, and to what ...

Individual-level data provide the detail required for scientifically rigorous studies of vaccine effectiveness (e.g., cohort and case–control studies) 3 and safety (e.g., self-matched case series ...

An alternative to sharing individual-level data is sharing aggregate data or summary statistics. Such statistics include genotype counts, allele frequencies, P values, odds ratios and other ...

According to research by Econsultancy and Ensighten, only 10 percent of marketers have successfully aggregated data from social, web analytics, customer purchase history and in-store visits and sales.

Recently, however, we have seen instances where data that was thought to have been properly aggregated was, in fact, easily re-identifiable through the use of sophisticated data mining tools. Topics ...

These meta-analyses are commonly based on aggregate data, extracted from publications or obtained from the original authors of these papers1 but aggregating data limits the options for in depth ...

Deaton’s work resulted in the use of individual level longitudinal data to supplement the existing use of aggregate data. Again, his work was about inserting people and their experiences into ...

Finding the individual in the data is also important for remembering why this research is done in the first place. That person scoring a "7" on a 1-9 scale of X variable is an individual who has ...