ICT Skills (AQA A-Level Geography): Flashcards
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WWAAH mnemonic (evaluating internet sources)
WWAAH mnemonic (evaluating internet sources)
Who, Who, What (age), Why, How (biased)
VGI (Volunteered Geographical Information)
VGI (Volunteered Geographical Information)
Info with geographic footprints contributed by users
Ushahidi platform (origin & year)
Ushahidi platform (origin & year)
Kenya, 2008 (map post-election violence in Nairobi)
Big data definition
Big data definition
Enormous data volumes in cloud servers (terabytes/petabytes)
VVV-FRED mnemonic (big data characteristics)
VVV-FRED mnemonic (big data characteristics)
Velocity, Volume, Variety, Flexible, Relational, Exhaustive, Detailed
ONS (Office for National Statistics) contains
ONS (Office for National Statistics) contains
Govt-collected info: census, economic stats, trade, crime
MetOffice UK weather records date back to
MetOffice UK weather records date back to
1869
Ordnance Survey database features count
Ordnance Survey database features count
450 million geographic features
GSD stands for
GSD stands for
Geo-spatial crowdsourced data
One petabyte equals
One petabyte equals
1,000 terabytes or 500 billion pages of text