Data system is a term used to refer to an organized collection of
symbols
A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between otherwise very different conc ...
and processes that may be used to operate on such symbols. Any organised collection of symbols and symbol-manipulating operations can be considered a
data system. Hence, human-speech analysed at the level of
phonemes can be considered a data system as can the
Incan artefact of the
khipu and an image stored as
pixels. A data system is defined in terms of some
data model and bears a resemblance to the idea of a
physical symbol system.
Symbols within some data systems may be persistent or not. Hence, the sounds of human speech are non-persistent symbols because they decay rapidly in air. In contrast, pixels stored on some peripheral storage device are persistent symbols.
Education
In
education, a data system is a computer system that aims to provide educators with student data to help solve educational problems. Examples of data systems include
Student Information Systems (SISs), assessment systems, Instructional Management Systems (IMSs), and data-warehousing systems, but distinctions between different types of data systems are blurring as these separate systems begin to serve more of the same functions. Data systems that present data to educators in an
over-the-counter data format embed labels, supplemental documentation, and help system and make key package/display and content decisions to improve the accuracy of data system users’ data analyses.
[Rankin, J. (2013, March 28)]
How data Systems & reports can either fight or propagate the data analysis error epidemic, and how educator leaders can help.
''Presentation conducted from Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) School Leadership Summit.''
See also
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Data processing
Data processing is the collection and manipulation of digital data to produce meaningful information.
Data processing is a form of ''information processing'', which is the modification (processing) of information in any manner detectable by an ...
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Longitudinal data system Longitudinal data system is a data system capable of tracking student information over multiple years in multiple schools. The term appears in Federal law of the United States to describe such a system. Federal funding
In the United States, fed ...
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Paul Beynon-Davies
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Persistent data structure
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Persistence (computer science)
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Databases