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Arndt, Timothy; Guercio, Angela – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
Recently organizations have begun to realize the potential value in the huge amounts of raw, constantly fluctuating data sets that they generate and, with the help of advances in storage and processing technologies, collect. This leads to the phenomenon of big data. This data may be stored in structured format in relational database systems, but…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Postsecondary Education, Data Collection
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Burrus, Jeremy; Jackson, Teresa; Xi, Nuo; Steinberg, Jonathan – ETS Research Report Series, 2013
To identify the most important competencies for college graduates to succeed in the 21st century workforce, we conducted an analysis of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database. O*NET is a large job analysis operated and maintained by the U.S. Department of Labor. We specifically analyzed ratings of the importance of abilities (52…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Job Skills, Occupational Information, Databases
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Matthews, Tansy E. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2009
This article describes the development of the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA). The VIVA statistics-processing system remains a work in progress. Member libraries will benefit from the ability to obtain the actual data from the VIVA site, rather than just the summaries, so a project to make these data available is currently being planned. The…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Databases, Statistics, Statistical Studies