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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DATA INTEGRATION Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of these data. This process becomes significant in a variety of situations‚ which include both commercial (when two similar companies need to merge their databases and scientific (combining research results from different bioinformatics repositories‚ for example) domains. Data integration appears with increasing frequency as the volume and the need to share existing data explodes
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is a necessity for a businesses trying to maximize its profits. A new‚ and important‚ tool in gaining this knowledge is Data Mining. Data Mining is a set of automated procedures used to find previously unknown patterns and relationships in data. These patterns and relationships‚ once extracted‚ can be used to make valid predictions about the behavior of the customer. Data Mining is generally used for four main tasks: (1) to improve the process of making new customers and retaining customers;
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Data Mining Assignment 4 Shauna N. Hines Dr. Progress Mtshali Info Syst Decision-Making December 7‚ 2012 Benefits of Data Mining Data mining is defined as “a process that uses statistical‚ mathematical‚ artificial intelligence‚ and machine-learning techniques to extract and identify useful information and subsequent knowledge from large databases‚ including data warehouses” (Turban & Volonino‚ 2011). The information identified using data mining includes patterns indicating trends‚ correlations
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There are many key differences that are important to understand between data oriented and process oriented approaches to designing a new system. The system focus of the data views and process views are entirely different. The process view focuses on what the systems supposed to do and when‚ while the data view has a focus on what the system needs to operate. Another noteworthy difference that distinguishes the two views is the design stability. The design stability of a process view is a more limited
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Chapter 1 Exercises 1. What is data mining? In your answer‚ address the following: Data mining refers to the process or method that extracts or \mines" interesting knowledge or patterns from large amounts of data. (a) Is it another hype? Data mining is not another hype. Instead‚ the 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. Thus‚ data mining can be viewed as the result of
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billion bytes of data in digital form be it on social media‚ blogs‚ purchase transaction record‚ purchasing pattern of middle class families‚ amount of waste generated in a city‚ no. of road accidents on a particular highways‚ data generated by meteorological department etc. This huge size of data generated is known as big data. Generally managers use data to arrive at decision. Marketers use data analytics to determine customer preferences and their purchasing pattern. Big data has tremendous potential
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Data Mining On Medical Domain Smita Malik‚ Karishma Naik‚ Archa Ghodge‚ Shivani Gaunker Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering & Information Technology Shiroda‚ Goa‚ India. Smilemalik777@gmail.com; naikkarishma39@gmail.com; archaghodge@gmail.com; shivanigaunker@gmail.com Abstract-The successful application of data mining in highly visible fields like retail‚ marketing & e-business have led to the popularity of its use in knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) in other industries
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Activity 1 Reasons why organisations need to collect HR Data. It is important for organisations to collect and retain HR data as this will be key for strategic and HR planning. It will also help to have all the information necessary to make informed decisions‚ for the formulation and implementation of employment policies and procedures‚ to monitor fair and consistent treatment of staff‚ to contribute to National Statistics and to comply with statutory requirements. The key organisational
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Data Mining Abdullah Alshawdhabi Coleman University Simply stated data mining refers to extracting or mining knowledge from large amounts of it. The term is actually a misnomer. Remember that the mining of gold from rocks or sand is referred to as gold mining rather than rock or sand mining. Thus‚ data mining should have been more appropriately named “knowledge mining from data‚” which is unfortunately somewhat long. Knowledge mining‚ a shorter term‚ may not
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