Charging into the frontier of geospatial Web services, Steve Morris from North Carolina State University (NCSU) tackles the opportunities and challenges related to streaming geospatial
data and geoarchiving in libraries.
Since restoration quality is based on the integrity of the original
data, it is important to preserve integrity when files are stored for backup.
At DePauw, university staff spent four years integrating
data into a central repository, known as Client Information Service, which also serves as a university-wide address book.
A
data system at the Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township discovered that classroom instruction was not always aligned to state standards nor the state assessment test.
An operator usually performs only a few mouse clicks to open a
data entry form, and only a couple more mouse clicks are required to save
data and exit the application.
-- Survivor Bias Free Database --
data is available on inactive companies allowing researchers to remove survivorship bias from their research.
Definitions of
data mining abound, and they vary among practitioners.
A major interest of NIDDK is supporting secondary
data analyses in the causes, burden, natural history, and treatment and medical care of overweight and obesity, including analyses of behavioral/environmental factors that may be predictive of long term weight maintenance or prevention of weight gain.
System integration is the key to using third-party
data efficiently.
With
data auditing procedures in place, there is a record of what happened--what
data was accessed, when it was changed and how it changed--long before financial reports are issued.
PMs and their support staff must understand the true costs and benefits associated with UID and the significant benefits to be gained through accurate and reliable automated
data capture.
These types of
data include tracking the contributions from external donors (bilateral, World Bank, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria; and international foundations) as well as national expenditures and "out of pocket" spending from families and persons affected by HIV/AIDS.
These techniques are required to generate the volume of
data necessary for evaluations in a reasonable amount of time.
They then convert those documents'
data into hypertext markup language (HTML) format and post them on the Web for public viewing.
The UCR Program
data collection guidelines stipulate that a hate crime may involve multiple offenses, victims, and offenders within one incident; therefore, the hate crime
data collection program is incident-based.
