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profiling

profiling

3 6.8
Examining data to find its structure, content, quality, and information about it
  • noun
  • /ˈproʊfaɪlɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : perfilado de datos
  • idiographic profiling

Examples

  • Of course, based on your brand profiling, I think this one could work quite well.

  • It's a personality profiling system that is a mix of ancient wisdom about human nature and cutting edge psychology.

  • As genetic profiling grows more robust, many people fear it will be used as discrimination in employment and insurance.

    Academic text (2004)
  • In the realm of cyberspace, governments practice "online profiling" at an escalating rate.

    Academic text (2002)
  • 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.

    Blog text (29)
  • The present study was conducted to overcome the aforementioned limitation by extending idiographic profiling and scaling to include physiological descriptors.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The data profiling revealed that many entries were missing critical metadata.

  • Before integrating the datasets, we conducted a thorough profiling to ensure their quality.

  • Effective data governance requires regular profiling to maintain data integrity and usability.

Synonyms

probing
vsprofiling
11 4.7

A careful investigation to find the truth

aims to map dataset content, quality, and metadata rather than seek hidden facts
analyzation
vsprofiling
  • US
5.0

A careful study of something in detail to understand it

focuses specifically on dataset structure, quality, and metadata for cleaning and governance

Compounds

racial profiling
  • Offensive
22 7.2

An act when police stop or suspect people because of their race

1 9.2

Assuming someone's background from the way they speak

facial profiling
  • Specialized
8.3

Identifying people by their faces in photos or videos, often to find criminals

genetic profiling
  • Specialized
4.9

Testing DNA from a sample to identify a person or family links

genetic profiling
  • Specialized
4.4

Testing a person's genes to find traits and health risks for medical or business use

racial profiling
  • Offensive
7.5

The use of people's race in computer systems to make decisions that hurt certain groups

How Thorough

information audit
  • Specialized
5.1
to audit
  • Specialized
17 4.2
profiling
  • Specialized
3 6.8
assessment
474 2.8
scan
138 3.8

Surface Forms

profiling singular
profilings plural

Morphology

profiling = profile (transparent) = profile + ing

A regular nominalization of the verb 'profile' meaning 'to analyze characteristics', so 'profiling' as examining datasets is directly derived.

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.