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- noun statistics
data concerningindividuals in a trial, survey etc. - noun computing
data stored in amicroformat
Etymologies
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A New York Times analysis of census "microdata," prepared by the
NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL LUO 2010
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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
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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.
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IE9 scores well on the multimedia features like the video and audio tags, but gets scores of zero on less spectacular features like microdata.
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The specification includes a description of microdata, a new markup standard for specifying structured information within web pages.
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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.
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To learn more about rich snippets and microdata support, here are some links:
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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.
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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.
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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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