Scientific Research and Data Analysis
Worksheets - 4 pages - Humanities/philosophy
This document is the summary of a course that presents the different ways in which research can be conducted in Science, as well as the method of data analysis. Science is a more formal, rigorous approach in the quest for truthful knowledge. It relies on objectivity and rationality -...
Implementing a database
Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Computer science
You are required to write a summative report for the company's senior management and shareholders, who you are to assume are not digital-literate in relation to databases, therefore the language should be clear and any technical terms used should be explained. The report should introduce the...
Wine Yield Forescasts Using EO and Weather Data
Internship report - 16 pages - Computer science
Yield forecast methods based on satellite imagery are numerous, and they are usually built around diverse machine learning approaches. This internship was an introduction to a whole remote sensing workflow development, from the input data retrieving to the final forecast itself, which is...
Witnesses and Data Messages
Law case study - 3 pages - Criminal law
In terms of section 15 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 25 of 2002 ('ECTA') the legal requirements for the admissibility and weight of data messages are stipulated by the Act. The term 'data message' means data generated, sent, received...
Utilizing Database Performance Using DB column storage
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
This paper seeks to discuss how databases can perform with DB column storage techniques. Over the past few years, databases systems running on column stores have been discussed and so much attention paid to them. In retrospect, column stores are used to store each and every database table column...
Efficiency of Clustering Algorithms - Large Biological Data Bases
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
Today, protein sequences are more than one million (Sasson et al., 2002) and as such, there is need in bioinformatics for identifying meaningful patterns for the purposes of understanding their functions. For a long time, protein and gene sequences have been analyzed, compared and grouped using...
Data mining as a methodology for extracting hidden knowledge from breast cancer patient's
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
Modern monitoring devices among other data collection devices have helped health care organization reduce their cost of collecting and storing data. Specialized tools that come with such equipment have made the entire data collection and storage process more effective thereby...
Security and Risk Management - IT Database security
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The IT infrastructure of the organization makes it susceptible to external intrusions. For example, there are more than 1000 access points with no security awareness programs and no deployed security software programs or reporting to protect the access points. In addition, there is need for...
Data analysis in business
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Business analytics is often referred to as practices, technology and skill in continued iterative exploration and investigation of previous business performance to attain insight and conduct the planning of business. A specific example of business analytics application is data analysis....
Sensor protocols for information via negotiation: A data centric routing protocol for wireless sensor networks
Case study - 6 pages - Computer science
The emergence of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) as one of the dominant technology trends in the coming decades has posed numerous challenges for researchers. These networks are likely to be comprised of hundreds, and potentially thousands of tiny sensor nodes, functioning autonomously, and in...
Recommendations for Data Warehouse Concept
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The main aim of various business organizations is to be the leading producer of goods and services offered to their customers in order for the organization complete with competitors in the competitive market. In order for organizations to achieve these desire, organizations through their...
Data sheet: CARE International
Essay - 10 pages - Services marketing
CARE International focuses on the technology of 'avant-garde' and the pending the needs of consumers in respect of personal care products. CARE International is based on a simple philosophy: innovate and offer the greatest number of consumers with the most innovative and effective...
The importance of ethnobotany, compilation of data and the potential problems arising from distribution of this information
Thesis - 4 pages - Biology
Undoubtedly, it is beneficial for the catalogue information for the sake of preserving knowledge. When confronted with any situation, it would be great to have all of the relevant information possible to help make a decision. Particularly when yourself or a loved one is ill, being able to have...
Data warehousing
Essay - 3 pages - Computer science
A data warehouse is a term used to describe the electronically stored data of an organization. These warehouses are important in helping an organization analyze and report on the organization data. It is a process that aims at storing data but it also aims at...
Deploy robust data transmission over the noisy channel
Thesis - 2 pages - Physics
The secret data is encrypted and permutated using the chaos method. Experiments show the good quality of the stego-image and resistant against the various noise attacks (Like Salt and Pepper). At the same time, the proposed algorithm exhibits good encryption speed, less computations and...
Privacy preserving distributed data mining by using tree based randomization
Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science
Due to increasing concerns related to privacy, organizations are forced to take actions to protect the privacy of individuals when revealing customers' records during data mining activities. In this paper we present a methodology that preserves statistical relationship between attributes...
A new paradigm in designing an advertisement - an application of real time data warehouse & data mining in preparation of an ad copy
Thesis - 16 pages - Computer science
The purpose of the article is to address the relative information of modeling an ad copy through real-time data warehousing. In modern enterprises the day-to-day activities information is to be stored in data warehouse. We have taken the example of data warehouse concept from...
Agent oriented domain driven data mining
Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science
Data mining is the process of knowledge discovery in the database. The basic need of data mining in business is to help in improving the business. There are different types of businesses based on domains. Data mining has been recognized as an essential element of decision...
Weight adapted of k - nearest neighbor algorithm with genetic approach implementing over data classification
Thesis - 6 pages - Mathematics
The enormous flow of information in various fields of technology prompts for the development of novel Data Mining methodologies that can process and interprets large volumes of data to be classified to a specify category with high reliability. The problem with Data...
Database enterprise manager
Tutorials/exercises - 27 pages - Computer science
The project titled “Database Enterprise Manger” is designed using Active Server Pages .NET with Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2005 as front end and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as back end which works in .Net framework version 2.0. The coding language used is VB .Net. The system...
Selecting informative features - a novel approach for the classification of large dataset
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
Feature subset selection plays an essential role in all data mining applications. It speeds up a data mining algorithm and improves mining performance. This paper proposes a novel approach of feature subset selection for classification problem. This approach aims to find common...
Acquisition strategy specific to data centric applications and growth plans of EMC Corporation
Essay - 3 pages - Business strategy
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), has adopted a strategy of selective acquisition along with its own plans of organic growth to consolidate its leadership position. Recent company activities and initiatives point towards this direction. Such a strategy is in sync with EMC's aim of becoming a leader in...
Performance comparison of feature selection technique for distributed database
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Feature subset selection plays an essential role in all data mining applications. It speeds up a data mining algorithm and improves mining performance. This paper investigates the performance of several feature selection methods for classification: filter, wrapper and hybrid. The...
X-Server: New trends in databases for wired and wireless networks
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Nowadays XML is being used as an underlying technology for most of the transactions on the internet. XML is widely used for Database Storage. Most of the leading product developed companies use XML as their Metadata framework. This work started with a goal to manage XML data and to provide...
Application of data mining techniques in designing knowledge base on student competency at the post graduate level
Thesis - 7 pages - Educational studies
Maintenance of academic standards is the prime concern of any educational institution. Education at the Masters level, involves the conscious involvement of time, money and effort by the candidates. With the industrial downturn and reduction in the demand for graduates at the job market due to...
Kanata: Adaptation and evolution in data sharing systems
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
The role of various elements employed in the adaptation and evolution of data systems is complex. This article elaborates a number of issues related to adaptation and changing data patterns. It includes the use of metadata. Metadata is employed in web pages and are used by search...
The history of data storage and it's place in modern day computing
Thesis - 2 pages - Computer science
Even before the first computer made its way into popular knowledge, data storage was an activity that had occurred many times. Data had been copied and stored on a hard disk like tool and then re-used by a mechanical contraption of some sort. In 1801 for example the punch card was...
An analysis concerning whether or not V02 max data is different between male and female sample groups
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
Abstract - Purpose: The study aimed to assess whether VO2 max data is significantly different between male and female sample groups when eliminating the affects of body mass (BM), this was analyzed through the use of scaling methods. Method: Subjects (33 male, 21 female) performed a V02...
Efficiency analysis of conventional and Islamic banks in Indonesia using data envelopment analysis
Tutorials/exercises - 18 pages - Finance
Islamic banks have been in existence since early 1960s. The first Islamic bank was established in 1963 as a pilot project in the form of rural savings bank in a small town of Egypt, Mit Ghamr. After that, Islamic banking movement came back to life in mid 1970s. The establishment of Islamic...
Data mining in financial crime detection
Thesis - 5 pages - Journalism
In this paper, we have discussed different financial crimes that are seen today i.e credit card fraud, card not present fraud, Loan default, Bank Fraud, Money Laundering, Insurance crime etc. Then we have discussed how data mining becomes helpful for detection of these types of financial...
