In the scholarly article, "Assessing Data Quality for Information Products: Impact of Selection, Projection, and Cartesian Product", Amir Parssian assesses the management of data quality and the quality of associated data management processes because it is critical for organizations. First off this article is a scholarly because of the post by TAMU library that states it is. Also it cites all of its information and the tone is not casual like most non scholarly articles would be. Continuing on about the article, Amir Parssian assesses these types of quality along the lines of accuracy and completeness. They examine how the quality measure of source data affect the quality for information outputs produced by using the relational algebra operations selection, projection, and Cartesian product. This data can then be used to determine how quality features attached with varied data sources affect the quality of the derived data.
This article conveys a successful rhetorical message. It does this by showing actual calculations of information quality. It does get its point across also by listing mistakes that were made in their, if you will experiment. Parssian also provides ethos by having his article be scholarly, making people believe in what he has to say. Here's a link to the article to see for yourself.
http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/56/12/2316.full.pdf+html
Monday, November 14, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
The Obsession with Video Games
I have written about how teenagers are not susceptible to information overload because they know how to filter the information. But I have recently found cases to where this is not true. Video gaming is a huge exception to my previous arguments.
Video gaming is popular among all age groups and keeps anyone occupied for hours...literally. Although some may know how to handle their time, some are less fortunate. In my opinion, teenagers are among the highest groups of people who are sucked into the gaming world and don't know how to balance video games and the world outside.
What's better than a live example to prove to you that not all teenagers know how to handle the technology around us. Ever since I got my boy friend an x box it has been like his new addiction. Literally all day this past sunday he was on his gaming sytem playing call of duty. He did not get up to eat once until he finally retired his xbox at nine that night! But not only was he interacting with technology through his xbox, he was also texting and looking up sports news on his phone whenever the game was loading or whenever he died in the game.
It amazes me how someone can be so overloaded with technology all day long! Maybe I just noticed because I was writing an essay all day and was more interested in what he was doing more than what I was doing. But no matter why I noticed it, the point is that people live their lives like this everywhere! Maybe something does need to be done to control the constant obsession with technology so we don't get overloaded with all of the outlets it provides.
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