The Data Protection Act (UK – 1998‚ Malta – 2001): The DPA concerns the “collection‚ recording‚ organization‚ storage‚ adaptation‚ alteration‚ retrieval‚ gathering‚ use‚ disclosure‚ blocking‚ erasure or destruction of personal data”. The purpose of the Data Protection Act: a. The purpose of the DPA is to protect living individuals against the misuse of their personal data. Examples of such misuse could include exposing of personal data without obtaining prior permission from the data subject
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The 8 Principals of Data Protection The Act regulates the use of “personal data”. To understand what this means we need first to look at how the Act works or defines the word “data” Data means; information which- a) is being processed by operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose. b) Is recorded with the intention that it should be processed. c) Is recorded as part of a relevant filing system with the intention that it should form part of relevant
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Introduction to Data Mining Summer‚ 2012 Homework 3 Due Monday June.11‚ 11:59pm May 22‚ 2012 In homework 3‚ you are asked to compare four methods on three different data sets. The four methods are: • Indicator Response Matrix Linear Regression to the Indicator Response Matrix. You need to implement the ridge regression and tune the regularization parameter. The material of this algorithm can be found in Page 103 to Page 106 in the book ”The Elements of Statistical Learning” (http://www-stat
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energy innovations and solutions have been hindered by lack of research data on how people use electricity in their homes during the course of the day. But for the past two years‚ one U.S. university has attacked the problem directly. Students and faculty conducting energy and smart grid research at the University of Texas have had access to a treasure trove of knowledge found nowhere else on earth: billions of time-stamped data records from the Pecan Street Research Institute’s original field research
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DATA MINING FOR POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS: East – West Airlines/Telcon Jermaine Paul 12/12/2013 BUSINESS PROBLEM East-West Airlines (EA) is entering into partnership with the cellular service provider‚ Telcon‚ by marketing their service through direct mail. In order to achieve this‚ EA dataset is provided to categorize their customers to identify which ones would be likely to purchase Telcon’s services through direct mail. If the accurate categorization is done the partnership will save
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Benefits of Fleet Management Data Integration NAME DBM 502 University of Phoenix Benefits of Fleet Management Data Integration Abstract Huffman Trucking maintains extensive vehicle fleet maintenance logs‚ with data on vehicles‚ parts‚ tires‚ maintenance‚ warranty‚ costs and dates of service. Management wants to know whether it would be strategically advisable to integrate this information into their current data warehouse and how to leverage it. Investigation shows that there could be significant
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Data warehousing and current trends Submitted to: Mr. S. Ramanathan TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Executive Summary 2. Data warehousing basics‚ difference from database and its business implication 3. Data mining‚ businesses using it and how 4. ETL technology‚ businesses using it and how 5. Tools used 6. Data mart and difference in business implication 7. References EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This study takes an insight into the usage of data warehousing and data mining
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A Paper on Data preprocessing and Measures of Similarities and Dissimilarities and Data Mining Applications DEEPAK KUMAR D R M.SC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3RD SEMESTER‚ DAVANGERE UNIVERSITY deepakrdevang@gmail.com Abstract: This topic is mainly used by a number of data mining techniques‚ such as clustering‚ nearest neighbor classification‚ and anomaly detection. And it can also include the data mining applications.In this paper we have focused a variety of techniques‚ approaches and different areas
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* Stands for "Database Management System." In short‚ a DBMS is a database program. Technically speaking‚ it is a software system that uses a standard method of cataloging‚ retrieving‚ and running queries on data. The DBMS manages incoming data‚ organizes it‚ and provides ways for the data to be modified or extracted by users or other programs. Some DBMS examples include MySQL‚ PostgreSQL‚ Microsoft Access‚ SQL Server‚ FileMaker‚ Oracle‚ RDBMS‚ dBASE‚ Clipper‚ and FoxPro. Since there are
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manage large volumes of business data. The use of database systems in supporting applications that employ query based report generation continues to be the main traditional use of this technology. However‚ the size and volume of data being managed raises new and interesting issues. Can we utilize methods wherein the data can help businesses achieve competitive advantage‚ can the data be used to model underlying business processes‚ and can we gain insights from the data to help improve business processes
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