Profiling is the action of applying selection criteria to a database For example in a Lifestyle database selecting prospects with an income of over £30,000 living in a house worth over £250,000 in London and the Home Counties
The process of generating a statistical analysis of a program that shows processor time and the percentage of program execution time used by each procedure in the program
The building of a profile on consumers' interests by monitoring and analyzing the Web pages, types of content, and paths users take while visiting one or more Web sites
system of recording pupils' personal achievements in all areas of activity Used to supplement formal examination results
An analytic tool that uses epidemiologic methods to compare practice patterns of providers on the dimensions of cost, service use, or quality of care The provider's pattern of practice is expressed as a rate aggregated over time for defined population of patients
Profiling is an analytic tool that uses epidemiological methods to compare practice patterns of providers on the dimensions of cost, service use, or quality of care The providers pattern of practice is expressed as a rate, aggregated over time for defined population of patients
Placing a cookie on a Web surfer's hard drive to track that person's actions on the Internet, and then using the collected data to create a profile of that individual's interests
Real-time tailoring of displays, particularly Web pages, to an identified set of customer characteristics, such as probable preferences based on demographics See personalization, CRM, and Active Data Warehousing
recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people
A process that produces detailed information about program execution, such as details about areas of code where most of the execution time is spent The prof(1) command produces profiling information
A technique whereby a set of characteristics of a particular class of person is inferred from past experience, and data-holdings are then searched for individuals with a close fit to that set of characteristics