Data Processing Task
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A Data Processing Task is an information-processing task that requires the processing of datasets.
- Context:
- Input: a dataset.
- It can range from being a Small-Data Processing Task to being a Big-Data Processing Task.
- It can range from being a Data Pre-Processing Task to being a Data Post-Processing Task.
- It can range from being a Batch Data Processing Task to being a Stream Data Processing Task.
- It can range from being a Structured Data Processing Task to being an Unstructured Data Processing Task.
- It can range from being a Data-Intensive Task to being a Data-Unintensive Task.
- It can range from being a Standalone Data Processing Task to being a Distributed Data Processing Task.
- It can be solved by a Data Processing System (that implements a data processing algorithm).
- It can be composed of a Data Import Task, a Data Manipulation Task and a Data Export Task.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Data Processing Act, Calculation Task.
References
2009
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=data%20processing
- S: (n) data processing ((computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_data_processing
- Computer data processing is any process that uses a computer program to enter data and summarise, analyse or otherwise convert data into usable information. The process may be automated and run on a computer. It involves recording, analysing, sorting, summarising, calculating, disseminating and storing data. Because data are most useful when well-presented and actually informative, data-processing systems are often referred to as information systems. Nevertheless, the terms are roughly synonymous, performing similar conversions; data-processing systems typically manipulate raw data into information, and likewise information systems typically take raw data as input to produce information as output.
Data processing may or may not be distinguished from data conversion, when the process is merely to convert data to another format, and does not involve any data manipulation.
- Computer data processing is any process that uses a computer program to enter data and summarise, analyse or otherwise convert data into usable information. The process may be automated and run on a computer. It involves recording, analysing, sorting, summarising, calculating, disseminating and storing data. Because data are most useful when well-presented and actually informative, data-processing systems are often referred to as information systems. Nevertheless, the terms are roughly synonymous, performing similar conversions; data-processing systems typically manipulate raw data into information, and likewise information systems typically take raw data as input to produce information as output.