Secondary data refers to the data which an investigator does not collect himself for his purpose rather he obtains them from some other source‚ agency or office. In other words‚ this data has already been collected by some other source and an investigator makes use of it for his purpose. Secondary data is different from primary data on the basis of the sources of their collection. The difference between the two is relative - data which is primary at one place become secondary at another place.
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DATA ORGANIZATION‚ PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS Research Methods 1 Data Organization and Presentation To make interpretation and analysis of gathered data easier‚ data should be organized and presented properly. The usual methods used by researchers are textual‚ tables‚ graphs and charts. 1.1 Textual Data can be presented in the form of texts‚ phrases or paragraphs. It involves enumerating important characteristics‚ emphasizing significant figures and identifying important features of
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Simply use statistics as a tool. You will be given a data. (Next year you will not be given data‚ you will gather data yoruself). 1. Data: one of the variables is dependent and other dependent. Can be multiple. Then do regression analysis. ANOVA for overall significance and Regression equation. And write based on ANOVA there is a significance or not. 2. Some comments on correlation: volume vs. horse power etc. 3. Hypothesis test of one population. I assume that the mean is etc etc. Small paragraph
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and Kimball’s definition of Data Warehousing. Bill Inmon advocates a top-down development approach that adapts traditional relational database tools to the development needs of an enterprise wide data warehouse. From this enterprise wide data store‚ individual departmental databases are developed to serve most decision support needs. Ralph Kimball‚ on the other hand‚ suggests a bottom-up approach that uses dimensional modeling‚ a data modeling approach unique to data warehousing. Rather than building
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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 Security and Regulations SRK Abstract This paper discusses data security‚ its importance and implementation. The way threats are posed to information of organizations is also discussed. There are plenty of leakage preventive solutions available in the market. Few of them are listed in the paper. There is a list of regulations governing data security in financial and healthcare sector at the end. Data Security and Regulations As we are advancing into information age‚ more
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Big Data which companies are easily able to collect from their businesses‚ customers and employees. It explains the numerous advantages of using the data collected by companies effectively so that it can be used by the company in improving its efficiencies‚ sales‚ faster and quicker turnaround which in turn would lead to increase revenues and finally increased profits (which is what the stakeholders of the company are looking for).It illustrates the prominent fact that companies that are data-driven
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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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discussed and all concluded that data analysis methods help us understand facts‚ observe patterns‚ formulate explanations‚ and try out the hypotheses. Not only does it help us understand facts‚ but they we also discovered that data analysis is used in science and business‚ and even administration and policy-making processes. We’ve found out the data analysis can be carried out in all fields‚ including medicine and social sciences. Once an analysis is conducted the data that is carried out is documented
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2.2.3 Data Collection Another crucial stage that cannot be ignored is deciding on the type and nature of data that is to be used in the research. Ideally‚ there are three types of data that a researcher can collect using primary research. First‚ the data can be quantitative in nature. This refers to data that is capable of been converted into a numerical value (Kothari 2004). One of the benefits of quantitative data is that its measurement does not require critical reviews‚ making it easy to collect
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