Well,

Whatever might have gone wrong should to be corrected:
  1. Students must receive the correct marks, the KCSE results are really key to anyones career and it's is very important that candidates feel they are holding the result which they indeed achieved.
  2. To ensure that whatever error in data mining or otherwise is corrected, this can only be guaranteed through a code audit. That application can be vetted and there really software houses that can do this. I hope Bwana PS will assist in ensuring ICT is seen as a positive contributor. This is now turning out to be a software issue and its important that we take note of the questions that may arise with regard to locally produced software.
Muthoni

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:34 PM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Dear All,
My earlier e-mail to Aduda has elisted direct questions as to how the
programing error could have occured.  Usually errors such as the one
explained by the Minister occur during Data Mining.

Researchers generally define data mining (sometimes called data or
knowledge discovery) as the process of analyzing data from different
perspectives and summarizing it into useful information - information that
can be used to increase revenue, cuts costs, or both. Data mining software
is one of a number of analytical tools for analyzing data. It allows users
to analyze data from many different dimensions or angles, categorize it,
and summarize the relationships identified. Technically, data mining is
the process of finding correlations or patterns among dozens of fields in
large relational databases like KCSE.

Data does not automatically become information unless it is mined properly.


Ndemo




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