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 Mining Information Systems for Decision Making 10 December 2013 Abstract Data mining the next big thing in technology‚ if used properly it can give businesses the advance knowledge of when they are going to lose customers or make them happy. There are many benefits of data mining and it can be accomplished in different ways. The problem with data mining is that it is only as reliable as the data going in and the way it is handled. There are also privacy concerns with data mining
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number of articles on “big data”. Examine the subject and discuss how it is relevant to companies like Tesco. Introduction to Big Data In 2012‚ the concept of ‘Big Data’ became widely debated issue as we now live in the information and Internet based era where everyday up to 2.5 Exabyte (=1 billion GB) of data were created‚ and the number is doubling every 40 months (Brynjolfsson & McAfee‚ 2012). According to a recent research from IBM (2012)‚ 90 percent of the data in the world has been
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DATA | INFORMATION | 123424331911 | Your winning lottery ticket number | 140593 | Your date of birth | Aaabbbccd | The grades you want in your GCSEs | Data and information Data‚ information & knowledge Data Data consist of raw facts and figures - it does not have any meaning until it is processed and turned into something useful. It comes in many forms‚ the main ones being letters‚ numbers‚ images‚ symbols and sound. It is essential that data is available because it is the first
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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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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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