information that has been collected at first hand is called primary research. It involves measurement of some sort‚ whether by taking readings off instruments‚ sketching‚ counting‚ or conducting interviews. Conducting primary research is a useful skill to acquire as it can greatly supplement our research in secondary sources‚ such as journals‚ magazines‚ or books. We can also use it as the focus of our writing project. In primary data collection‚ we collect the data ourselves by using methods
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ict policy Data Protection ICT/DPP/2010/10/01 1. Policy Statement 1.1. Epping Forest District Council is fully committed to compliance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 which came into force on the 1st March 2000. 1.2. The council will therefore follow procedures that aim to ensure that all employees‚ elected members‚ contractors‚ agents‚ consultants‚ partners or other servants of the council who have access to any personal data held by or on behalf of the
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Data Processing During the collection of data‚ our group noted the effect that temperature change had on aquatic macro invertebrates. Our data was collected from three different ponds amongst the Lake Harriet/Lake Calhoun vicinity. We took samples from the bird sanctuary pond‚ Lake Calhoun holding pond and the Lake Harriet duck area. Prior to our procedure‚ we measured the temperatures of each pond area. We used the low-temperature climate (bird sanctuary pond) to compare to the higher-temperature
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A glimpse of Big Data Jan. 2013 What is big data? “Big data is not a precise term; rather it’s a characterization of the never ending accumulation of all kinds of data‚ most of it unstructured. It describes data sets that are growing exponentially and that are too large‚ too raw or too unstructured for analysis using relational database techniques. Whether terabytes or petabytes‚ the precise amount is less the issue than where the data ends up and how it is used.”------Cite from EMC’s report
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business intelligence‚ data warehouse‚ data mining‚ text and web mining‚ and knowledge management. Justify and synthesis your answers/viewpoints with examples (e.g. eBay case) and findings from literature/articles. To understand the relationships between these terms‚ definition of each term should be illustrated. Firstly‚ business intelligence (BI) in most resource has been defined as a broad term that combines many tools and technologies‚ used to extract useful meaning of enterprise data in order to help
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Case Description The case involves Dr. Barret Rollins‚ Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) for the Dana- Faber Cancer Institute‚ and Diana Cohn‚ a member of the institute board of trustees. On October 14‚ 2010 Dr. Rollins received a call from Diana Cohn expressing her concern about the lack of progress regarding the NIH Grant‚ largely due to miscommunication and lack of collaboration between centers of the institute. Diana Cohn’s remarks stem from dealing with her husband’s battle with Glioblastoma Multiforme
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Introduction to Data Mining Assignment 1 Ex1.1 what is data mining? (a) Is it another hype? Data mining is Knowledge extraction from data this need for data mining has arisen due to the wide availability of huge amounts of data and the imminent need for turning such data into useful information and knowledge. So‚ data mining definitely is not another hype it can be viewed as the result of the natural evolution of information technology. (b) Is it a simple transformation of technology developed
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Q) What are Secondary Data? Secondary Data Secondary data is information gathered for purposes other than the completion of a research project. Data previously collected by someone else‚ possibly for some other purpose that can be used later for making decisions if found suitable for the purpose‚ other than the original one. Secondary data can be acquired from the internal records of the organization‚ their departments‚ subsidiaries or sister organizations and also from external sources‚ such
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Yung Joc Instructor Laura Daubenmire English III September 14‚ 2012 An Essay on Summer School I can blame no one but myself for my need to attend summer school for this year. However: I would like to blame it on my Spanish teacher‚ my mother‚ my siblings‚ my dog ate the homework‚ anyone but Christopher L. Martin. Summer school was not in my game plan the first day of school last year. I entered my school‚ Lake Catholic HS‚ with the calm surety and purpose of a bona-fide tenth grader‚ I’ve
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Topic 1: The Data Mining Process: Data mining is the process of analyzing data from different perceptions and summarizing it into useful evidence that can be used to increase revenue‚ cut costs or both. Data mining software is one of a number of analytical tools for analyzing data. It allows users to analyze data from many different dimensions or angles‚ categorize it and summarize the relationships identified. Association‚ Clustering‚ predictions and sequential patterns‚ decision trees and classification
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