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Repurposing Legacy Data
Innovative Case Studies
Learn how to restore, analyze, and draw value from legacy data
Jules J. Berman (Author)
9780128028827, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 18 March 2015
176 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.29 kg
Repurposing Legacy Data: Innovative Case Studies takes a look at how data scientists have re-purposed legacy data, whether their own, or legacy data that has been donated to the public domain. Most of the data stored worldwide is legacy data—data created some time in the past, for a particular purpose, and left in obsolete formats. As with keepsakes in an attic, we retain this information thinking it may have value in the future, though we have no current use for it. The case studies in this book, from such diverse fields as cosmology, quantum physics, high-energy physics, microbiology, psychiatry, medicine, and hospital administration, all serve to demonstrate how innovative people draw value from legacy data. By following the case examples, readers will learn how legacy data is restored, merged, and analyzed for purposes that were never imagined by the original data creators.
Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Learning from the mastersChapter 3. Dealing with textChapter 4. New Life for Old dataChapter 5. The purpose of data analysis is to enable data reanalysisChapter 6. Dark Legacy: Making sense of someone else's dataChapter 7. Social and Economic Issues Appendix A. Index of Case StudiesAppendix B. GlossaryAuthor Biography
Subject Areas: Databases [UN], Information technology: general issues [UB], Library, archive & information management [GLC]
