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  2. Data processing - Wikipedia

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    A data processing system is a combination of machines, people, and processes that for a set of inputs produces a defined set of outputs. The inputs and outputs are interpreted as data, facts, information etc. depending on the interpreter's relation to the system. A term commonly used synonymously with data or storage (codes) processing system ...

  3. Electronic data processing - Wikipedia

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    Electronic data processing (EDP) or business information processing can refer to the use of automated methods to process commercial data. Typically, this uses relatively simple, repetitive activities to process large volumes of similar information. For example: stock updates applied to an inventory, banking transactions applied to account and ...

  4. Herman Hollerith - Wikipedia

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    Herman Hollerith. Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American statistician, inventor, and businessman who developed an electromechanical tabulating machine for punched cards to assist in summarizing information and, later, in accounting. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine, patented in 1884, marks ...

  5. Data science - Wikipedia

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    Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field [1] that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from potentially noisy, structured, or unstructured data.

  6. ADP (company) - Wikipedia

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    Automatic Data Processing, Inc.(ADP) is an American provider of human resourcesmanagement software and services, headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey. History. [edit] In 1949, Henry Taubfounded Automatic Payrolls, Inc. as a manual payroll processing business with his brother Joe Taub. Frank Lautenbergjoined the brothers in the company's infancy.

  7. Database - Wikipedia

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    An SQL select statement and its result. In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze the data. The DBMS additionally encompasses the core ...

  8. Big data - Wikipedia

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    Big data can include structured, unstructured, or combinations of structured and unstructured data. Big data analysis may integrate raw data from multiple sources. The processing of raw data may also involve transformations of unstructured data to structured data. Other possible characteristics of big data are: [42]

  9. History of statistics - Wikipedia

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    History of statistics. Statistics, in the modern sense of the word, began evolving in the 18th century in response to the novel needs of industrializing sovereign states. In early times, the meaning was restricted to information about states, particularly demographics such as population. This was later extended to include all collections of ...