Dickeson--Join the Information Age

That was our "raw data" phase. With the growing sophistication of databases, we began conversion of raw data to information by filtering, sorting, grouping, summarizing, calculating and formatting. We analyzed, looked for trends, applied statistical formulae, used regression charting. We called upon new techniques such as OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing) to enable us to spot co-variances or correlations we hadn't identified before.