Business appointees note that departments collate mounds of data but make little use of them.
In other words, analysis requires proper data management and is premised on the appropriate collecting, collating, and storing of data.
It removes much of the effort and risk of error associated with collating other forms of data such as triggered fault records (which may be accurately timestamped but have different start/end times).
Cumulative meta-analyses are important in collating the totality of data, potentially helping researchers and funders to make informed decisions about the sufficiency of evidence and to set priorities for new studies.
It also criticised the adequacy of current knowledge of the investigative utility of a range of forensic genetic technologies and suggested the establishment of an international 'observatory' capable of collating comparative data on the effectiveness of uses of forensic genetics in support of criminal investigations and prosecutions.
For years, the American command has collated an array of data on roadside bombs, suicide attacks, small-arms fire and other violence directed against American forces, Iraqi units and the nation's beleaguered civilians.
A well-known illustration of this is the way Target, an American retail chain, creatively collated scattered pieces of data about individuals' changes in shopping habits to predict the delivery date of pregnant shoppers – so that they could then be targeted with relevant advertisements.
While ugly in design, the app does collate a lot of data.
Miller et al. (2006) collated 20 years of data on views on evolution from 32 European countries, Japan, and the United States.
The author, under the nom de plume patternBoy, mobilised a cadre of volunteers to track the references and collate the cloud of data surrounding the work – those elements of the story with footprints on internet resources such as Google and Wikipedia.
