OpenDP Newsletter – March 2022 by Lindsay Froess…
Introducing OpenDP Library v0.4
Dear OpenDP Community, We’re pleased to release version 0.4 of the OpenDP Library. Highlights include several new measurements and transformations, improved floating point handling, and general code cleanup. The full list of changes can be found in the CHANGELOG. It’s available now on PyPI, crates.io, and GitHub. As always, we look forward to receiving your feedback, which…
OpenDP Library Release
Dear OpenDP Community, In anticipation for the Community Meeting starting Wednesday, September 22, we’re pleased to release the initial public version of the OpenDP library (0.2.1) for testing. This release is meant to give you a chance to familiarize yourself with the current state of the library, and to facilitate discussion at the meeting next…
OpenDP Progress and Outlook
As we draw to the close of an unusual year marked by the pandemic and the most difficult times it brought to us and our loved ones, the OpenDP team would like to extend our best wishes to you and your family this holiday season. Since our Community Meeting in May, we have been hard…
OpenDP Team Discussion with Red Hat
Dear OpenDP Community, We are writing to share some interesting discussions between the OpenDP team and Red Hat. James Honaker and Mercè Crosas discussed the importance of data sharing and privacy preservation, in both scientific and computer technology domains, with Sherard Griffin, Director at Red Hat in the AI Center of Excellence, in Red Hat’s Regional…
OpenDP Advisory Board Report
We are grateful to the many thought leaders who have agreed to serve on the inaugural OpenDP Advisory Board. The first Advisory Board meeting was held as part of the first OpenDP Community Meeting, on May 15th, 2020. The discussion covered a wide range of topics, including governance, use cases, community role / mission and…
Update on the OpenDP-Microsoft Collaboration
Gary King, OpenDP Faculty Co-Director In September 2019, Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science announced a large-scale collaboration with Microsoft to develop open source tools for differential privacy, work that is now part of the broader OpenDP community effort. We are thrilled to report on the progress our collaboration has made, and we write today…
Community News – Social Science One
The following news from the Social Science One project may be of interest to the OpenDP Community. If you have news you would like to share with the community, please feel free to use this mailing list community@opendp.org. We’ve updated the Social Science One – Facebook “URLs dataset”. It now has 17 trillion cell values with…
Dataverse Community Meeting and Integration of OpenDP with Data Repositories
One of OpenDP use cases is the integration of OpenDP tools with public data repositories to release differentially private statistics of sensitive data hosted in the repository. Public data repositories have become ubiquitous in research and are a key part of the research lifecycle. Funders increasingly require sharing the research data associated with a funded…