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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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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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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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 warehousing is the process of collecting data in raw form for analyzing trends. The benefits to data warehousing are improved end-user access‚ increased data consistency‚ various kinds of reports can be made from the data collected‚ gather the data in a common place from separate sources and additional documentation of data. Potential lower computing costs‚ increased productivity‚ end-users can query the database without using overhead of the operational systems and creates an infrastructure
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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 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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Q) What are Secondary Data? Secondary Data Secondary data is information gathered for purposes other than the completion of a research project. Data previously collected by someone else‚ possibly for some other purpose that can be used later for making decisions if found suitable for the purpose‚ other than the original one. Secondary data can be acquired from the internal records of the organization‚ their departments‚ subsidiaries or sister organizations and also from external sources‚ such
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DATA DICTIONARY Data Dictionaries‚ a brief explanation Data dictionaries are how we organize all the data that we have into information. We will define what our data means‚ what type of data it is‚ how we can use it‚ and perhaps how it is related to other data. Basically this is a process in transforming the data ‘18’ or ‘TcM’ into age or username‚ because if we are presented with the data ‘18’‚ that can mean a lot of things… it can be an age‚ a prefix or a suffix of a telephone number‚ or basically
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