Introduction to vantage6
- Privacy enhancing analysis can derive insights from data without
seeing individual records.
- Privacy enhancing analysis usually starts with the anonymization or
pseudonymization of the data.
- In federated data analysis the analysis moves to the data, while in
classic analysis the data moves around.
- In secure multiparty computation, computations are performed
collaboratively without any one party being able to see all the raw
data.
- Techniques from differential privacy add noise to the data to make
it harder to reconstruct the original records from an aggregation.
- Privacy enhancing analyses usually stack multiple techniques on top
of each other to provide multiple layers of protection.
- Horizontal partitioning means the records are split, while in
vertical partitioning the features are split.
- Technology is only one part of the story, when doing research on
privacy sensitive data.
- vantage6 is an open source platform to execute PET analysis.
- A client is used to interact with the system.
- A vantage6 server orchestrates the execution of algorithms.
- The nodes contain the data and execute the computation.
- The algorithms in vantage6 have a federated part, running on local
data, and a central part, aggregating the results.
- Vantage6 uses a permission system to control who can do what in the
system.
- Vantage6 has default roles like
Root,
Collaboration Admin, Organization Admin,
Researcher, and Viewer.
- Vantage6 UI can be used to manage the entities of vantage6, like
creating or deleting an organization, a user, or a collaboration.
- Install the vantage6 CLI package by running
pip install vantage6.
- Use the
v6 --help command to see the available commands
of the vantage6 CLI.
- Use the
v6 node command to manage the vantage6 node
instances.
- Use the
v6 node new command to create a new node
configuration.
- Use the
v6 node start command to start a node.
- Use the
v6 node attach --name xxx command to show the
logs of the node xxx.
- Use the
v6 node stop command to stop a node.
- Use the
v6 node set-api-key command to set a new API
key of a node.
- Use the
v6 node files command to check the location of
the node configuration file.
- The commands similar to the ones presented for the node are also
available for
v6 server and
v6 algorithm-store.
- Use
v6 algorithm create to create a personalized
boilerplate
- Implement the partial functions to run on each node and the central
function to aggregate the results
- Build your algorithm into a docker image
- Test it with the mock client and with a local
v6 dev
test environment
- Publish your algorithm in the algorithm store to run it in the
UI
