DATAMINR CASE STUDY: Major Hollywood Studio Timely, relevant and actionable information is vital to making decisions during a developing risk event. Consider the April 2017 terrorist attack in Paris, where a gunman opened fire on a police officer and fled on foot. Just 1,000 yards away, the security team on the set of a major motion picture had to make a decision—should they shut down the set and evacuate the crew and actors? In those early seconds, information on the ground was frustratingly scarce. Was that sound gunfire or fireworks? If it was gunfire, is the threat still active? Where did the event happen? But the security team working in Paris that night wasn’t alone. Analysts at the film studio’s global security operations center (GSOC), some 9,000 miles away in Califo

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