data

The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus;      440 words ...data • plural noun (often as singular)  a lack of data on the drug's side effects synonyms : facts, figures, statistics...material, input; informal info.   USAGE NOTES   data Whether you write “data are” or “data...

Smart Data Validation

SQL Server Magazine;  October 1, 2006 ;   Lawton, Brian;   787 words ...Improve data validity by applying core database modeling...concepts When someone asks you to describe the data in your organization, a given system, or...should also include a characterization of the data's quality. After all, it's not the amount...

Security in the data warehouse: data privatization. (Technology...

Enterprise Systems Journal;  March 1, 1996 ;   Inmon, W.H.;   649 words ...The essence of a data warehouse is accessibility of datea. If a data warehouse does nothing else, it exists and enables easy and efficient access and analysis of data. However, not all data that exists in a data warehouse...

Data-driven-decision making.

T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education);  July 1, 2004 ;     497 words ...Data as defined here encompasses a range of topics, including data definitions, data management systems, infrastructure (both local and statewide), and the actual use of data to make decisions on either...

Dormant data. (data warehouses) (Technology Information)

Enterprise Systems Journal;  May 1, 1997 ;   Inmon, W.H.;   787 words ...The popularity of data warehouses in some regards is their bane. Because of their popularity, data warehouses carry with them growth -- of both data and processing. And with growth come increased expenses and increased complexity of operation. Soon...

Mind Your Business by Mining Your Data.

SAM Advanced Management Journal;  March 22, 2001 ;   Chopoorian, John A. Witherell, Robert Khalil, Omar E. M. Ahmed, Mehnaz;   787 words ...Introduction Data is the organizational challenge of the new...ability to quickly and effectively convert data into comprehensible information. Decisions...most organizations are overwhelmed with data, there is still a persistent information...

Mining for information. (data mining)(Computer Talk)(Column)

Management Accounting (British);  June 1, 1997 ;   Bentley, Trevor;   787 words ...Data warehousing has arrived, and there are mixed reactions to its value. At one extreme is the view that this is...extreme, people believe it is a waste of time, money and effort. Perhaps I should start by saying, once again, what data warehouses are. A data warehouse can best be described as a dedicated ...

Quality in Africa: in the second of a 3-part series, Sina Ayanlade...

GEO: connexion;  June 1, 2007 ;   Ayanlade, Sina;   787 words ...Metadata--data about data--metadata--are very important. Metadata allows us to understand the origin of the data, its geometric characteristics, its attributes, and what type of cartographic...

Applying Data Mining Principles to Library Data Collection.(Technology...

Computers in Libraries;  April 1, 2000 ;   guenther, kim;   787 words ...Data mining is the process of identifying patterns, trends, and correlations across large amounts of collected data. In some industries, such as healthcare and retail, sophisticated data mining applications are used to tap into large data warehouses, data marts, and repositories...

Opinion: Inside view - Continuous data management - the way to data...

Pensions Week;  October 25, 2004 ;     787 words ...Data is the lifeblood of a pension scheme, circulating around...parties and essential for the scheme's well being. High quality data improves the prospect of trouble-free operation and keeps members, trustees and their providers happy. Poor quality data, on the other hand, has the opposite effect; benefits ...

'Scrubbing' Data for D3M: is your school or district planning to develop...

T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education);  October 1, 2005 ;   Mercurius, Neil;   787 words ...Data-driven decision-making (D3M) appears to be the new buzz phrase...education front, teachers and administrators are engaging in data-centered dialog in grade-level meetings, lounges, hallways...a result of NCLB, the teaching community is establishing data repositories to analyze information to improve ...

Data Storage & Security.(The Bleeding Edge)

The CPA Technology Advisor;  June 1, 2008 ;     623 words ...Data Storage & Security BY DAVE McCLURE Using tools easily...Internet, it would take a hacker only minutes to take all of the data off of your laptop. Your office network, unless you are in...take much longer. For all of the advances we have made in data storage and retrieval systems, the greatest ...

Mine for data. (data mining applications of customer information...

The Banker;  April 1, 1996 ;   Talmor, Sharona;   761 words ...Data mining has revitalised the use at customer information databases. The merger between the...expected to be completed in September 1996, was intended to evaluate the quality of the data the merged group had about its customers; using fuzzy logic the data was cleaned up . The data was also improved ...

Managing Data Management: Don't wait until the end of a project to think...

Insurance Networking News: Executive Strategies for Technology Management;  November 1, 2007 ;   Freel, Mike;   787 words ...Data management has developed a bad reputation. Too many insurance...Carriers need to change their way of thinking and start building data management into the project from the beginning rather than...plans have been set can delay completion and add costs. If data management concepts are built into a ...

Enhancing files with external data.

Direct Marketing;  June 1, 1996 ;   Hinman, Don;   787 words ...Transactional data permits companies to segment their customer base into best...from its customers - often a costly proposition - or purchase data from outside sources. Selecting Data Elements When obtaining external data to overlay on a file...