profiling
- noun
- /ˈproʊfaɪlɪŋ/
- Specialized
- idiographic profiling
Examples
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Of course, based on your brand profiling, I think this one could work quite well.
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It's a personality profiling system that is a mix of ancient wisdom about human nature and cutting edge psychology.
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As genetic profiling grows more robust, many people fear it will be used as discrimination in employment and insurance.
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In the realm of cyberspace, governments practice "online profiling" at an escalating rate.
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Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is an international authority in personality profiling and psychometric testing.
Blog text (29) -
Many groups are working on next-generation sequencing tests for mutation profiling of tumors.
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The present study was conducted to overcome the aforementioned limitation by extending idiographic profiling and scaling to include physiological descriptors.
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The data profiling revealed that many entries were missing critical metadata.
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Before integrating the datasets, we conducted a thorough profiling to ensure their quality.
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Effective data governance requires regular profiling to maintain data integrity and usability.
Synonyms
A careful investigation to find the truth
A careful study of something in detail to understand it
Compounds
- Specialized
Identifying people by their faces in photos or videos, often to find criminals
- Specialized
Testing a person's genes to find traits and health risks for medical or business use
- Offensive
The use of people's race in computer systems to make decisions that hurt certain groups
How Thorough
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word profiling here uses the same idea from profile: making an 'outline' or picture of something. In data work it means examining a dataset to note its 'shape', parts and quality so you can clean, join or use it.