Americans leave long electronic trails of private information wherever they go. But too often‚ that data is compromised. When they shop—whether online or at brick and mortar stores—retailers gain access to their credit card numbers. Medical institutions maintain patient records‚ which are increasingly electronic. Corporations store copious customer lists and employee Social Security numbers. These types of data frequently get loose. Hackers gain entry to improperly protected networks‚ thieves steal employee
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Data Mining DeMarcus Montgomery Dr. Janet Durgin CIS 500 June 9‚ 2013 Determine the benefits of data mining to the businesses when employing 1. Predictive analytics to understand the behavior of customers Predictive analytics is business intelligence technology that produces a predictive score for each customer or other organizational element. Assigning these predictive scores is the job of a predictive model‚ which has‚ in turn been trained over your data‚ learning from the experience
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Geometric mean From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The geometric mean‚ in mathematics‚ is a type of mean or average‚ which indicates the central tendency or typical value of a set of numbers. It is similar to the arithmetic mean‚ which is what most people think of with the word "average‚" except that instead of adding the set of numbers and then dividing the sum by the count of numbers in the set‚ n‚ the numbers are multiplied and then the nth root of the resulting
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Data Warehousing‚ Data Marts and Data Mining Data Marts A data mart is a subset of an organizational data store‚ usually oriented to a specific purpose or major data subject‚ that may be distributed to support business needs. Data marts are analytical data stores designed to focus on specific business functions for a specific community within an organization. Data marts are often derived from subsets of data in a data warehouse‚ though in the bottom-up data warehouse design methodology the data
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much data‚ and what to do about them There is rarely an instance of business that you can encounter that does not involve the processing of data on information systems these days. Businesses and organizations use information systems in a majority of their functions‚ and as a result‚ are creating mass amounts of data. Because data is so crucial to business operations‚ it is being gathered‚ stored‚ and utilized in exponential amounts compared to the previous decade. These data stores can be extremely
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Using Statistical Information University of Phoenix Using Statistical Information Statistics have become critical to the operation of any medical facility. At Samaritan Medical Center (SMC)‚ we routinely look at data to guide our workflow‚ staffing and patient satisfaction. One of the most commonly referenced statistical databases used at our facility is Press Ganey. Press Ganey utilizes a mailed survey to a random selection of discharged patients to gauge the quality of care given to
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Chapter 3 – Data Visualization Chapter 4 – Summary Statistics Data Mining for Business Intelligence Shmueli‚ Patel & Bruce © Galit Shmueli and Peter Bruce 2010 Data Visualization • “A picture is worth a thousand words” • Data visualization and summary statistics help condense data • Effective presentation • Supports data cleaning (identify missing values‚ outliers‚ incorrect values‚ duplicates) and exploring (combine some groups) • Helps identify suitable variables • Mandatory initial step for
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1 Secondary data analysis: an introduction All data are the consequence of one person asking questions of someone else. (Jacob 1984: 43) This chapter introduces the field of secondary data analysis. It begins by considering what it is that we mean by secondary data analysis‚ before describing the type of data that might lend itself to secondary analysis and the ways in which the approach has developed as a research tool in social and educational research. The second part of the chapter considers
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Ensuring Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing Cong Wang‚ Qian Wang‚ and Kui Ren Department of ECE Illinois Institute of Technology Email: {cwang‚ qwang‚ kren}@ece.iit.edu Wenjing Lou Department of ECE Worcester Polytechnic Institute Email: wjlou@ece.wpi.edu Abstract—Cloud Computing has been envisioned as the nextgeneration architecture of IT Enterprise. In contrast to traditional solutions‚ where the IT services are under proper physical‚ logical and personnel controls‚ Cloud Computing
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impact of data quality problems on the companies described in this case study? What management‚ organization‚ and technology factors caused these problems? BT Group had data quality issues within the product inventory and customer billing databases‚ resulting in poor efficiency of the system. The case doesn’t really give the reason that these databases contained inaccurate data. However‚ one can assume that the errors were caused by lack of structure within the organization at data collection
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