Wylie was asked by the committee how the data was used by CA. Giving an example he says the company's approach was to target different people for advertising based on their "dispositional attributes and personality traits" — traits it sought to predict via patterns in the data.
In this effort the Phenotype, Attribute and Trait Ontology (PATO), an ontology of phenotypic qualities, is a key tool.
Some matches to variables were identified as terms in Trait Ontology [ 24], while for others it was necessary to combine different ontologies (Phenotype, Attribute and Trait Ontology [ 25], Plant Ontology, etc) following the EQV (Entity Qualifier Value) model [ 26].
The variability of the structural components can be observed and described with the Entity–Quality (EQ) representation based on the Phenotypic Attribute and Trait Ontology (PATO; Gkoutos et al., 2004a; Mungall et al., 2010).
Although assessing the influence of both environmental attributes and species traits on diversity patterns across fragments is analytically challenging, it is crucial for better understanding the consequences of increasing anthropogenically driven land-use change.
Unease on this score is increased with the reflection that what qualifies a person as able or disabled (or for that matter as talented or untalented) is not simply a function of her natural attributes but is rather a function of the mesh between her natural attributes and the traits that are valued by people given the organization of society (Buchanan et al. 2000: chapter 3 and 7; Wikler 1983).
Hard skills involve specific knowledge and abilities: For example technical proficiencies, mathematics, data analysis, etc. Soft skills focus on attributes and personality traits.
We're choosing the candidate because of his attributes and his character traits.
The Giants' equipment director, Joe Skiba, fills out a profile sheet for each new player, complete with physical attributes, personality traits and equipment preferences, including what type of helmet the player wore previously.
