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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public health catastrophe. Over the years childhood obesity has increased at a rapid pace. This paper will show the results of the data collection method‚ the data analysis procedure‚ and the conclusion of how to apply the background and methodology of the research process with the problems in health care‚ and apply the emphasis on childhood obesity. Data Collection: The data collection method was appropriate for this study because children were involved and the research was based on previous studies
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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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Module code: BSS002-6 Module Name: Business Data Analysis Submission: 30 November‚ 2012 I my class I learn how to simulate data to solve a problem. I learn to use excel and some function in it these are =SUM() = RAND() =AVERAGE() =STDV() =RANDINV() =VLOOKUP() and few more . These are widely used function when I simulated data in excel. In task 1 I find out how to calculate or forecast how much card should we print. I use a random variable with =RAND( function and use
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Shopping System For Accessory Fulfillment Center‚ Houston‚ TX Presented By: Dhaval Patel Yunhan Chen Dan Han Guided by: Pro.Tal Ben Zvi Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management MIS-620 August 2014 MIS620 – Final Project 2 Table of Contents: 1. Scope Definition ...................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 About Company ......................................................................
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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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technological factors combined with "street food" and conforming with being what it is considered "in" by the young generation; gourmet trucks’ menus run the gamut of ethnic and fusion cuisine. These street food stalls often focusing on limited but creative dishes at reasonable prices‚ they offer customers a chance to experience food that they otherwise may not be able to. Street food has also evolved with the growing need of its consumers thus the creation of food trucks. While one truck may specialize
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"Data Compression and Data Processing” Please respond to the following: * Explain whether or not you believe there is a discernible difference in efficiency between compressing and decompressing audio data and compressing and decompressing image data. Provide at least three reasons for your argument. There are efficiency differences between a given compressions for audio or image‚ this is due to: 1. The difference in data‚ example bmp‚ jpg‚ gif of the same image‚ mp3‚ wav‚ ogg for
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Censored data & Truncated data Censoring occurs when an observation or a measurement is outside the range and people don’ t know the certain value. The value is always above or below the range that people set. However‚ truncated data means that because of the limits‚ such as time‚ or space‚ people lose some data. Truncation is to cut off the data. In other words‚ we have collected and use the data‚ but the data is not in the range we have. It is called censored data. We don’t use the data because
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Master Thesis Electrical Engineering November 2011 Security Techniques for Protecting Data in Cloud Computing Venkata Sravan Kumar Maddineni Shivashanker Ragi School of Computing Blekinge Institute of Technology SE - 371 79 Karlskrona Sweden i This thesis is submitted to the School of Computing at Blekinge Institute of Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Software Engineering. The thesis is equivalent to 40 weeks of full time studies.
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