Brief Answer Questions: What is information? Information is the processed form of data, which has meaningful values for the receiver. What is data mining? Data mining is defined as a process used to extract usable data from a larger set of any raw data. Is privacy of data an issue in data mining? Give reason. […]
Unit 10: Capacity Planning
Capacity Planning Any data warehouse solution will grow over time, sometimes quite dramatically. It is essential that the components of the solution (hardware, software, and database) are capable of supporting the extended sizes without unacceptable performance loss, or growth of the load window to a point where it affects the use of the system. The […]
Unit 9: Data Warehousing
Data Warehousing The data warehouse is the heart of the architected environment, and is the foundation of all DSS processing. The job of the DSS analyst in the data warehouse environment is massively easier than in the classical legacy environment because there is a single integrated source of data (the data warehouse) and because the […]
Chapter 11: Information and communication Technologies in the Hollywood’s global Primacy
Hollywood, Defined Hollywood is a physical place, a district of the city of Los Angeles, California. Hollywood is a metaphor for the American entertainment industry. Hollywood is defined as the system of the US entertainment industry revolving around the following six major companies that are part of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA): Paramount […]
Unit 8: Search Engines
Search Engines Search engines are a program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web. Search engines utilize automated software applications (referred to as robots, bots, or spiders) that travel along the Web, […]
Unit 7: Advanced Applications
Web Mining In recent years the growth of the World Wide Web exceeded all expectations. Today there are several trillions of HTML documents, pictures and other multimedia files available via internet and the number is still rising. The WWW is huge, widely distributed, global information service center for news, advertisements, consumer information, financial management, education, […]
Unit 6: Information Privacy and Data Mining
Information Privacy and Data Mining Data privacy Data privacy, also called information privacy, is the aspect of information technology (IT) that deals with the ability an organization or individual has to determine what data in a computer system can be shared with third parties. Information privacy is considered an important aspect of information sharing. With […]
Chapter 10: Thriving in a new economy
Digital Economy Digital economy refers to an economy that is based on digital computing technologies, although we increasingly perceive this as conducting business through markets based on the internet and the World Wide Web. The digital economy is also sometimes called the Internet Economy, New Economy, or Web Economy. Digital economy is defined as an […]
Unit 5: Cluster Analysis
Cluster analysis A cluster is a collection of data objects that are similar to one another within the same cluster and are dissimilar to the objects in other clusters. The process of grouping a set of physical or abstract objects into classes of similar objects is called clustering. Clustering techniques apply when there is no […]
Chapter 9: Antitrust and Information Policy
Antitrust and Information Policy Antitrust refers to government policy to regulate or break up monopolies in order to promote free competition and attain the benefits that such competition can provide to the economy and to society as a whole. Since the government’s rules inevitably affect industry participants, no executive in the network economy […]