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Thursday, 26 September 2013

Computer Terminology/Glossary D-E-F

Data controller: Those who are responsible for processing 'personal data', information that is held about an identifiable living person. See also 'Data subject', an associated legal term.

Data grid

Data integration: A computational process enabling the linking together of different datasets.

Data mining: A set of procedures such as clustering and pattern recognition algorithms that search large datasets for patterns. It is usually atheoretical, using unsupervised learning and identifying patterns in data and summarising them without reference to a conceptual or theoretical organising framework.