An untaught IT principle you’ve been using?
An untaught IT principle you’ve been using?
The below is overly simplistic to some, a moment of learning to others. Use if helpful.
In real life, we often knowingly or unknowingly process things we see through our filters, albeit religious, philosophical, personal, etc. and make decisions or just assumptions based on those filters.
I realized that I’ve been using a set of principles in a large project. I now have written several REXX, Easytrieves, and Cobol programs along these lines.
No worries, if you just rolled your eyes. I took a Data Science boot camp at the Georgia Tech Learning Center and I am confident this will apply in other technologies.
We pull in data, process it, and produce outputs over and over in IT.
INPUTS
You have a set of input data that you’d wish to process, or analyze. There could be a single set or multiple files. Perhaps you have scrubbed the data, perhaps not. You will see that the data may have multiple iterations.
GOLD STANDARD
We’ve heard the phrase ‘Gold Standard’ used quite often. The implication is that your data will hit against this and pass or fail or be affected by this set of standards.
Let’s think of these as reference files.
OUTPUTS
You bounce the inputs off of the reference files and create your output files.
I most often will repeat the inputs as outputs that have passed the reference files with messages imbedded in the outputs where the inputs have failed the reference checks.
CONCLUSION
I think if we realize we are doing the above, our approach will be more concise, simple.
I’ve done this on projects to quickly evaluate situations I’ve come across.
Have a great day!! (What is your standard of a great day?)
