Data

sell personal data extracted from the public. The NSA’s collection of data and tracking of digital activities has raised an increasing amount of concern from the public. However, many companies also utilize this unregulated type of data collection. Social media has created a new way for these companies to gain access to deeply personal information on almost everyone and has, therefore changed the data-mining game entirely. Now more than ever, it is important to share the truth about data-mining…

I never considered that the information that is released, is carefully selected. While other data is completely tossed out. This new insight made me realize that one shouldn’t blindly believe all statistics that they come upon. Instead, one should investigate and analyze the information presented to them. This is something that I plan to use in…

The article below is an excerpt from the Policy Information Report, published by the Educational Testing Service and is based on 2008 NAEP data. Although the following discussion focuses on the Black/White educational achievement gap the paper discusses trends in the gap between Black and White educational attainment, school achievement, and contextual factors from the beginning of the 20th century to the present time. I believe mobility plays a big part in the gap. Being born and raised in a…

E-compensation tools assist companies with the retrieving and processing critical data that ensures internal and external equity. Moreover, HR and functional managers can access critical data at any time through the use of web-based tools. This provides senior leaders the information needed for compensation planning and decision support in e-compensation systems. However, organizations…

of 375). Further 79 percent (298) had a bachelor’s degree and 31 percent (31) had a masters degree. Further, 14 items were divided into four sub scales (team harmony, integration with job, commitment to job, and personal development) to make the data collection five-point ‘Job Motivation Scale’. Step 3: Determine the type of relationship to examine: Content Analysis will be applied as it pertains to the use of ‘job motivation’. The use of job motivation can be examined as used in…

time to take a breath and think big picture. Completing the capstone project was exciting yet very challenging. The exciting part of DAT650 and DAT690 is the ability to connect the dots, to piece together everything that is learned throughout this Data Analytics Program. While it extremely disappointing to deliver unexpected failed results, the process of the whole capstone itself was fruitful though challenging. The element of surprise The format and the settings of the capstone remain…

telematics by definition is a combination of GPS technology, diagnostic sensors and monitoring sensors to track, log and report important information via cellular networks. This vital information contains performance and operation data pertaining to each piece of equipment. The data from these telematics systems are accessed through an internet portal and breaks down the retrieved information into categories. Farm equipment has entered an era of improved technology because of telematics. The…

down into a “numerical representation and manipulation of observations for the purpose of describing and explaining the phenomena that those observations reflected” (Babbie, 2015, 494). The data was then compiled utilizing Micrsoft Excel, this allowed for individual charts to be created to visually represent the data accuratly, See Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, and Figure 4. Each chart has a different representation. Figure 1 illustrates the findings of the pre-test wich indicate that each…

has been facing a lot of heat behind the misuse and mishandling of over fifty million Facebook users’ data. In short, a third-party app, known as the personality quiz app, harvested personal data from questionnaires that were shared over Facebook’s server system. The third-party app then proceeded to sell the data to the political data firm, Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica then used the data as a political advantage in Trump’s presidential campaign. This breach is a significant issue…

the reasons why. Include a section to compare and contrast the two technologies with regards to how they foster data integrity, performance and security. In the ever-changing world of technology, there have been many clear advancements in the space of databases. Two very common databases are MySQL and MongoDB. They are similar in many ways and also very different in how they deal with data. We will look at how they execute read queries and see what those similarities and differences are. Part…