Organize Data & Information – Facebook People
This chapter covers organize data & information – Facebook people.
Information
Defined simply, ____ is the stuff we want to consume
Attributes
Information types have ____ associated with them. These can be optional or a requirement for that type of information. For example, Facebook requires the person type to have a name and gender. But birthday is optional.
Attributes have ____. For example, on Facebook the person type has an attribute called “name.” In my account the name attribute has a value of “Bob Boiko.”
Item
An information ____ is one complete set of values.
Lifecycle
The ____ of information is the way information is originated, used and finally retired.
Created
Information is ____. It is originated in some way either by being created from scratch or acquired from somewhere else.
Stored
Information is ____ in databases or other information repositories.
Organized
Information is ____ so that it can be found again when it is needed.
Displayed
Information is ____ so that people can see and use it
Retired
Information is ____ when it is no longer immediately useful to people
You can _____ it (type it in from scratch), or, for non-text information record it in some other way.
Acquire
You can ____ it from somewhere else (for example, from another database) This is what happens with UW’s registration system.
Table
The info type is the ____
Column
The ____ names are the attributes.
Row
So, one ____ equals one information item.
Indexing
The first way we organize is by ____ (alphabetical and/or numerical lists of names).
Link
The second way to organize information is to ____ it to other pieces of information.
Sequences
A third way to organize information is by ____. For example Facebook can put your friends in order, indicating that you should look at one friend before another.
Hierarchies
The fourth choice for organization is ____, or outlines.
Identifier
Your identity on the Net, all the data that is collected about who you are, is tied together with an ____. It is a unique token, a string, a picture, or something else that is specific only to you.
Sequential numbers
We can use ____ as identifiers if we never go backwards or reuse numbers.
Random numbers
We can use ____ as identifiers if you have a high enough maximum identifier number
Directory
Many other identifiers on the Web are assured to be unique by the use of a ____. Someone in charge of keeps a list of all the ids people have chosen.
Data mined
What does it mean for you to be “____”? It means that someone is collecting information about you and drawing conclusions from it.
Anonymized
If in the process of data mining the data collected on you is ____ it cannot be tied back to your true identity.