Evolution of storage management: Transforming raw data into information

Evolution of storage management: Transforming raw data into information

ion. While graphical zooming changes the scale of the object being viewed, semantic zooming changes the level of information abstraction, for example, zooming out would mean going to a higher level of abstraction. It is often employed in conjunction with progressive disclosure, which provides task-specific presentation and interaction in a sequence of displays. Much of this capability was achie...

A Structured Process for Transforming Usability Data into Usability Information

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Transforming Time Series Data into Capacity Planning Information

Often an analyst has time series data available from performance monitors and needs to make statistical sense of it for capacity planning purposes. For example, a twenty-four hour column chart produced by averaging multiple days of time interval samples yields a statistically stable view of a resource’s usage characteristics across the day and clearly identifies its busy period. Since monitorin...

Transforming meteorological data into Linked Data

We describe the AEMET meteorological dataset, which makes available some data sources from the Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET, Spanish Meteorological Office) as Linked Data. The data selected for publication are generated every ten minutes by approximately 250 automatic weather stations deployed across Spain and made available as CSV files in the AEMET FTP server. These files are retrie...

transforming information into knowledge: quick diagnosis and prognosis