Question

Identify two analytical tools used to process data collection. How are they processed through organizational information systems?

Answer 1

Data collection involves gathering the data by following means:

• Collecting new data
• Reusing someone others data
• Purchasing data
• Acquired from Internet in the form of texts or images

Data Analysis involves actions and methods performed on data that help describe facts, detect patterns, develop explanations and test hypotheses.

It ensures the data quality assurance, statistical data analysis, modeling, and interpretation of results.

There are following tools to collect or analyze data:

Box and Whisker Plot: A tool used to display & analyze multiple sets of variation data on a single graph.

Check sheet: A generic tool that can be adapted for a wide variety of purposes, the check sheet is a structured, prepared form for collecting and analyzing data.

Histogram: The most commonly used graph for showing frequency distributions, or how often each different value in a set of data occurs.

Survey: Data collected from targeted groups of people about their opinions, behavior or knowledge.

Scatter diagram: A diagram that graphs pairs of numerical data, one variable on each axis, to look for a relationship.

Out of these histograms and scatter diagrams are the best two methods to process data collection and analysis in organizational information systems.

These techniques are highly employed in organizational information system especially in health care system to maintain the health patient records

At the same time for study of epidemiology of diseases.

These tools and techniques are also used in clinical trial data collection.

Hence I can conclude that by using the designs and tools for collection of data at the same time the analysis of data for better and effective technique in organizational information systems.