Anonymization of Passive Data

We are pleased to announce that we have now introduced an option to anonymize any passive data collected via our passive data integrations at the time that that data is collected. This is achieved via a one-way hash of email addresses which ensures that a consistent anonymized id is produced for all individuals over time. The export of raw passive data is also similarly anonymized if this option is configured.

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Hi Andrew - can we anonymise data collected via survey?

Hi @jturley. @vidgen was kind enough to share a script that he wrote in R that makes anonymisation easy. Here it is: Making your network anonymous.

If R is not your think you can achieve the same thing by exporting the survey results to Excel and then changing your name column to say Name 1, Name 2, etc. You would then use an INDEX(MATCH()) in Excel in order to replace the Source and Target with your anonymised names before re-uploading that anonymised network.

You may also want to upload this feature request that is a request to automate this as a feature in Polinode: Anonymizing Data - #3 by vidgen

Thank you @apitts . And thank you @vidgen.