Converting raw data into a more meaningful form is called:

David is in week 3 of his current ashford course and has a paper due by monday night at midnight. he has finished everything but the concluding paragraph. as he boots up his computer to work on it, he sees a flash across the screen and then the screen goes black. he begins to panic as he tries desperately to turn the laptop back on. david should have saved his work on what kind of portable device?

What side length would you specify if you were required to create a regular hexagonal plate that was composed of 33 cm(squared) of sheet metal? dimension the side length to 0.1 cm

Suppose there is a relation r(a, b, c) with a b+-tree index with search keys (a, b).1. what is the worst-case cost of finding records satisfying 10 < a < 50 using this index, in terms of the number of records n1, retrieved and the height h of the tree? 2. what is the worst-case cost of finding records satisfying 10 < a < 50 and 5 < b < 10 using this index, in terms of the number of records n2 that satisfy this selection, as well as n1 and h defined above? 3. under what conditions on n1 and n2, would the index be an efficient way of finding records satisfying the condition from part (2)?