Definitions

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  • noun statistics data concerning individuals in a trial, survey etc.
  • noun computing data stored in a microformat

Etymologies

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micro- +‎ data

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Examples

  • A New York Times analysis of census "microdata," prepared by the

    NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL LUO 2010

  • More microdata please, New Economist publishes a link to papers from the Internati ...

    Peak Load Pricing at the Movies, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • With modern data mining techniques and technology the most non-specific pieces of microdata when put into context with vast quantities of other microdata can be used to very quickly identify an individual as was highlighted by the AOL scandal a few years ago.

    Anti-Phorm nemesis Hanff in Brussels meet 2009

  • IE9 scores well on the multimedia features like the video and audio tags, but gets scores of zero on less spectacular features like microdata.

    First look: Internet Explorer 9 beta makes waves 2010

  • The specification includes a description of microdata, a new markup standard for specifying structured information within web pages.

    This week in search 3/15/10 2010

  • Paritcularly of interest to webmasters, this week we were excited to announce support for microdata for use in rich snippets in addition to our existing support for microformats and RDFa.

    This week in search 3/15/10 2010

  • To learn more about rich snippets and microdata support, here are some links:

    This week in search 3/15/10 2010

  • By using microdata markup when web pages are created, you can specify reviews, people profiles, or events information on your web pages that Google may use to improve their presentation in Google search results.

    This week in search 3/15/10 2010

  • With modern data mining techniques and technology the most non-specific pieces of microdata when put into context with vast quantities of other microdata can be used to very quickly identify an individual as was highlighted by the AOL scandal a few years ago.

    Anti-Phorm nemesis Hanff in Brussels meet 2009

  • In 1988, a new version of the survey was created, UCR2, and is since referred to as the 'incident-based' survey, in which microdata on characteristics of incidents, victims and accused are captured.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2008

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