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Data efficiency

Data efficiency refers to efficiency of the many processes that can be applied to data such as storage, access, filtering, sharing, etc., and whether or not the processes lead to the desired outcome within resource constraints. A management definition of data efficiency would be the measure of how data storage and usage across an enterprise or within a department or within a project - impacts the organization's costs and revenues. On the broadest level: DE = expected benefits from applying I.T. to a given task / cost of application of I.T. On the technical side, in the development of computer hardware, software and systems, Data Efficiency can refer to many things such as packing bits on a physical medium 1 , or chip area usage on a silicon wafer 2 , or the use of data in programming so as to require less time and computation resources 3 . Examples of these two categories of use for data efficiency (managerial and technical) can be found in process industries and computer chip research and development: 1.Traditional water/wastewater management procedures include travel to pump stations, reading and hand recording of meter numbers, transposition of log sheets, and other manual operations. This whole process can be said to have low data efficiency 4 .…

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Data efficiency refers to efficiency of the many processes that can be applied to data such as storage, access, filtering, sharing, etc., and whether or not the processes lead to the desired outcome within resource constraints. A management definition of data efficiency would be the measure of how data storage and usage across an enterprise or within a department or within a project - impacts the organization's costs and revenues. On the broadest level: DE = expected benefits from applying I.T. to a given task / cost of application of I.T. On the technical side, in the development of computer hardware, software and systems, Data Efficiency can refer to many things such as packing bits on a physical medium 1 , or chip area usage on a silicon wafer 2 , or the use of data in programming so as to require less time and computation resources 3 . Examples of these two categories of use for data efficiency (managerial and technical) can be found in process industries and computer chip research and development: 1.Traditional water/wastewater management procedures include travel to pump stations, reading and hand recording of meter numbers, transposition of log sheets, and other manual operations. This whole process can be said to have low data efficiency 4 .…

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  1. publication date: 2007-09-13 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "2007-09-13". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

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