gathering and measuring information on targeted variables in order to answer questions and evaluate outcomes

• data collection

• collaboration

• unstructured data

• big data

working together to facilitate the application of multiple perspectives and diverse talents and skills

• data collection

• collaboration

• unstructured data

• cloud computing

raw data with no connections and/or relationships among data detected - usually requires large amounts of storage

• data collection

• structured data

• unstructured data

• cloud computing

data that is organized in some fashion - uses relatively smaller storage

• big data

• structured data

• unstructured data

• cloud computing

a collection of numbers or values that relate to particular subject, usually portrayed in a relational database table

• data set

• array

• unstructured data

• data collection

knowledge created from structured relational databases

• knowledge extraction

• big data

• data set

• data collection

a collection of data organized and retrieved in various ways between database tables

• relational database

• array

• unstructured data

• data collection

data are figures and facts while information is data that is processed, interpreted and organized to become meaningful

• data vs. information

• Moore's law

• structured data

• relational database

the retention and retrieval of data

• data storage

• big data

• structured data

• relational database

extracting information that is formatted for human use and converting it into a format for computer use (example: scanner or pdf converter)

• knowledge extraction

• digital compression

• structured data

• screen scraping