Lessons Learned Journal Entry 4: 8/21/13 Alanna M. Schauer

                                                                                  Lessons Learned Journal Entry 4: 8/21/13

                                                                                               Alanna M. Schauer

 

            The week's lesson has to do with data mining and the necessity of having clean accurate data.  Joy's article outlined the nine influences determined by the IT industry and their standards set forth. Data accuracy and data quality were two of the nine influences and are considered a priority.  Adam discusses the importance of clean data and that high quality data requires a perceptive grasp of the meaning and intent of the data as well as the proper context for the Automated Community Health data base. Fiona's article discusses the "V"'s of data (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity, and Visibility) and the need to go slow, verify the data collected and build upon the data as you progress. Rita discusses an alternate utilization for data mining and one that can have ethical implications as it is involves pharmaceutical advertising to physicians. (Unfortunately I still cannot read Ethel's post). It was very informative and intriguing how all our blog's articles was interrelated this week