You Can Do With Data/The Information Architecture of an Organization What is the difference between data and information? Give examples. Data = discrete‚ unorganized‚ raw facts Quantity Sold‚ Course Enrollment‚ Customer Name‚ Discount‚ Star Rating. Information = transformation of those facts into meaning. Financial data (deposits)‚ daily loans. What is a transaction? Action performed in a database management system What are the characteristics of an operational data store? Stores
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Next Generation Mobile Analytical Instruments Palm Nuclear Magnetic Resonance System (PNMR) University Research & Entrepreneurship Symposium April 1‚ 2010 Dr. Marcus Semones WaveGuide Corporation WaveGuide is an early stage mobile analytical instrument company building a suite of next generation handheld (i) infrared and (ii) nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers for portable use in multiple untapped markets. WaveGuide’s business model: •Acquire exclusive worldwide licensing for existing
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WORLD DATA CLUSTERING ADEWALE .O . MAKO DATA MINING INTRODUCTION: Data mining is the analysis step of knowledge discovery in databases or a field at the intersection of computer science and statistics. It is also the analysis of large observational datasets to find unsuspected relationships. This definition refers to observational data as opposed to experimental data. Data mining typically deals with data that has already been collected for some purpose or the other than the data mining
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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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Name: Sun Puthir Alpha Yagouba Balde Class: MC0104 Quantitative Methods for Business Name: Sun Puthir Alpha Yagouba Balde Class: MC0104 Quantitative Methods for Business Case Study Chapter 4 North-South Airline: In January 2008‚ Northern Airlines merged with Southeast Airlines to create the fourth largest U.S. carrier. The new North-South Airline inherited both an aging fleet of Boeing 727-300 aircraft and Stephen Ruth. Stephen was a tough former secretary of the navy who stepped in as new president
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doctor has charted Dexter’s mass and related it to his BMI (Body Mass Index). A BMI between 20 and 26 is considered healthy. The data is shown in the following table. Mass(kg)62 72 66 79 85 82 92 88 BMI 19 22 20 24 26 25 28 27 (a) Create a scatter plot for the data. (b) Describe any trends in the data. Explain. (c) Construct a median–median line for the data. Write a question that requires the median– median line to make a prediction. (d) Determine the equation of the median–median line
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Data Preprocessing 3 Today’s real-world databases are highly susceptible to noisy‚ missing‚ and inconsistent data due to their typically huge size (often several gigabytes or more) and their likely origin from multiple‚ heterogenous sources. Low-quality data will lead to low-quality mining results. “How can the data be preprocessed in order to help improve the quality of the data and‚ consequently‚ of the mining results? How can the data be preprocessed so as to improve the efficiency and ease
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Collecting‚ Reviewing‚ and Analyzing Secondary Data WHAT IS SECONDARY DATA REVIEW AND ANALYSIS? Secondary data analysis can be literally defined as second-hand analysis. It is the analysis of data or information that was either gathered by someone else (e.g.‚ researchers‚ institutions‚ other NGOs‚ etc.) or for some other purpose than the one currently being considered‚ or often a combination of the two (Cnossen 1997). If secondary research and data analysis is undertaken with care and diligence
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1 CIPD unit 4DEP - Version 2 18.03.10 Unit title Developing Yourself as an Effective Human Resources or Learning and Development Practitioner Level 4 1 Credit value 4 Unit code 4DEP Unit review date Sept. 2011 Purpose and aim of unit The CIPD has developed a map of the HR profession (HRPM) that describes the knowledge‚ skills and behaviours required by human resources (HR) and learning and development (L&D) professionals. This unit is designed to enable the learner
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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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