Infobright for analyzing social sciences data

There are considerable challenges in analyzing, interpreting, and reporting word-based social sciences data. Infobright data warehousing technology was used to analyze a typical data set from the social sciences. Infobright was found to require augmentation for analyzing qualitative data provided as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Johnson, J., Johnson, Genevieve
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25260
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Summary:There are considerable challenges in analyzing, interpreting, and reporting word-based social sciences data. Infobright data warehousing technology was used to analyze a typical data set from the social sciences. Infobright was found to require augmentation for analyzing qualitative data provided as short stories by human subjects. A requirements specification for mining data that are subject to interpretation is proposed and left to the Infobright designers to implement should they so choose. Infobright was chosen as a system for implementing the data set because its rough set based intelligence appears to be extensible with moderate effort to implement the data warehousing requirements of word based data. © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.