Counting Queries: Extracting Key Business Metrics from Datasets

This post is part of a series on differential privacy. Learn more and browse all the posts published to date on the differential privacy blog series page in NIST’s Privacy Engineering Collaboration Space. How many people drink pumpkin spice lattes in October, and how would you calculate this without learning specifically who is drinking them, and who is not? While they seem simple or trivial, counting queries are used extremely often. Counting queries such as histograms can express many useful business metrics. How many transactions took place last week? How did this compare to the previous
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