Data Explanation Paper Cis/319

Data Explanation Paper Cis/319

  • Submitted By: shadras
  • Date Submitted: 02/03/2009 10:03 AM
  • Category: Technology
  • Words: 1109
  • Page: 5
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Current technology makes it easier to collect various types of data today than in the past. Not only is it easier, but it can be faster and more accurate if the correct methods of data input are used to collect the data. If the data is entered into a computer, it is easier to manipulate the data to make the information provided more beneficial to the person who wants the data. For example, a telephone survey could be conducted with a voice automated system that would record the responses and then enter them into a database. Even if the survey was not conducted using an automated voice system, the answers given by the person being surveyed could still be entered into a database. Once the information has been collected from the desired number of people, it would then be very easy to analyze the responses and make decisions based off of the information that was gathered
Printed questionnaires, such as a test or a printed survey could be input into a computer using an optical data reader. This would make grading a test much faster and fairer because the test scores would be tallied by the computer. The banking industry has a massive amount of data to be processed on a daily basis. Items such as bank checks, which include magnetic ink, can be processed using a magnetic ink character recognition device. If the banks did not use this type of processing or a similar process for the millions of checks that are written every day around the world, the industry would likely not be able to keep up with the economy. Written checks are sometimes considered to be too slow and many people and businesses would prefer to pay using credit cards. Not only do most businesses have to deal with bank checks, but they also have to keep track of inventory and sales which is typically done through scanning retail tags using a bar code scanner or some other point of sale system.
A bar code scanner is usually the fastest and easiest method of scanning retail tags on the items that...

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