PSY 260 Lecture 7: CHAPTER 5 glossary

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 260
• Professor: Kaplan Jill

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Attribute: each characteristic of quality describing a particular entity. Best practices: most effective and efficient ways to do things. Big data: diverse, high-volume, high-velocity info assets that require new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery, and process optimization. Bit: a binary digit-that is, a 0 or a 1. Clickstream data: data collected about user behavior and browsing patterns by monitoring users" activities when they visit a web site. Database: a group of logically related files that stores data and the associations among them. Database management system (dbms): software program or group of programs that provides access to a database. Data dictionary: collection of definitions of data elements; data characteristics that use the data elements; and the individuals, business functions, applications, and reports that use this data element. Data file: a collection of logically related records (see table) Data governance: an approach to managing info across an entire organization.