An Ad-Hoc Group of Oceanographers Needs to Set Up a System

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Essay

An ad-hoc group of oceanographers needs to set up a system to analyze massive amounts of data on ocean temperatures.The technology and hardware for gathering the data and transmitting the data to a central computer is in place.What additional hardware might they need? What techniques might they use to make their research more efficient and lower costs?

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Definitions:

Sample Variance

A measure of variation or dispersion of a set of sample values, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the Sample Mean.

Variance

A statistical measure of dispersion, indicating how spread out the values of a dataset are.

Symbol

A mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process.

Numerator

The top number in a fraction, indicating how many parts of a whole are being considered.