July 2009
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
12h 56m
English
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Index
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A
- A Business Intelligence System (Luhn), A Business Intelligence System
- accessibility, Specific Challenges to Data Collection
- accuracy of data, Length of survey, Designing trust
- ACID model of database transactions, The Challenge
- action points, A Business Intelligence System
- action research, Beyond the Data Warehouse
- Amazon Dynamo system, Amazon's Dynamo
- anchoring, 10. Data Isn't Free from the Eye of the Beholder
- Argus portal, New Tools and Applied Research
- asymmetry of risk-taking, What Data Doesn't Do
- asynchronous data collection, Asynchronous data collection
- author identification of corpus data, Author Identification (Stylometry)
- Autonomy Corporation, Beyond the Data Warehouse
- Azure SDS, Microsoft Azure SDS
B
- base rate fallacy, 6. Probability Isn't Intuitive
- best-effort approach to database transactions, The Challenge
- biases in interpretation of data, What Data Doesn't Do, 10. Data Isn't Free from the Eye of the Beholder
- BigTable system, Google's BigTable
- binary data, To Pack or Not to Pack
- BitTorrent, BitTorrent
- Bradley, Providing the Raw Data Back to the Notebook
- brains, Libraries and Brains
- Brants, Natural Language Corpus Data
- browser compatibility, Accommodating ...
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