Re:What companies in Israel are doing fascinating data science?
by DyslexicAtheist on Saturday March 19, 2016 @03:10PM
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The Israeli Atena company, part of the MER-Group and headed by the ex Mossad Chief S. Shavit, won a contract with the Israeli Tax Authorities to mine freely available data from social, forum and P2P sales sites, as well as from financial and investor sites, to extract information to be cross correlated with the authorities' files held on tax-payers - with the aim to discover cheaters.
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The Israeli Atena company, part of the MER-Group and headed by the ex Mossad Chief S. Shavit, won a contract with the Israeli Tax Authorities to mine freely available data from social, forum and P2P sales sites, as well as from financial and investor sites, to extract information to be cross correlated with the authorities' files held on tax-payers - with the aim to discover cheaters. [...]
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