I.     Answer the questions.

1)    What is a document synthesis?

2)    Why are the sources important?

3)    Why will you need to be selective when choosing information?

4)    What types of synthesis do you know about?

5)    What's the easiest method for the document synthesis?

II. Pick out the basic information of every paragraph.

Lesson 3

Read the text: Information analytics (Part I)

In the XX century analytical activity was widely adopted and turned into professional activity. In many countries there are information and analytical departments and services in state authorities, the companies, banks, political parties. The markets of analytical information, an intellectual product, methodical and the software of its receiving promptly develop.

Information analytics is engaged in production new knowledge on the basis of processing of available information with a view of decision-making optimization. Modern information analytics – the difficult complex activity relying both on natural intelligence, and on computer technologies of operating by information massifs, methods of the mathematical modeling of processes, etc. Information analytics carries out first of all a problem of high-quality and substantial transformation of information, being functionally crossed in this plan with scientific (production of new knowledge) and administrative (development of versions of decisions, scenarios) activity.

Information analytics, relying on scientific knowledge, the general regularities, deals with life phenomenology more often, carrying out an assessment of the facts and events, predicting their development with the account not only the generalized typical parameters, but also the whole range of factors, including subjective and personal, casual influences, and also conscious actions of competing forces, an antagonism of interests, active intervention of social technologies.

In organizational activity of the analyst through many centuries (and even the millennia) latent no developed in power structures, only presently as a result of processes of an institutionalization were created analytical services, departments, positions, were included into whose tasks collecting, the analysis of information and development of versions of administrative decisions (scenarios). This process can be characterized as intersystem organizational registration of analytics (intersystem restructuring). An analytics Infrastrukturnost as being formed new branch it was shown in polycentrism and in a certain degree of overlapping of its main organizational structures. If built in (or functionally connected) analytical services of the first type resulted from management and analytics symbiosis, organizationally making out analytical function inherent in management, genesis of other organizational structures of analytics was carried out on the basis of other regularities.

Also «information and analytical activity (IAD) is a process of semantic data processing as a result of which separate data turn into finished information production – the analytical document».

Process of semantic data processing can be presented in the form of some sequence of rather independent stages which cumulative description provides guidance on it as a whole. Process IAD presented in the form of algorithmic sequence of procedures below are given:

1. IAD begins with definition of object, a subject and an analysis problem. This the stage includes acquaintance with a problem as a whole, and also with the related issues which studying can appear useful; drawing up of the general plan of work with the indication of term of performance, performers and the main sources which allegedly can to be used.

2. Creation of ideal model of object and subject. Provides creation of regulatory base for the follow-up analytical activity.

3. Collecting factual data. It the IAD inevitable stage, regardless of area of research and the studied phenomenon. Here accurate definition is necessary first of all used concepts and the most extensive istochnikovy base. At selection of sources it is necessary to treat found information critically.

4. Assessment of a factual material. The main objective at this stage consists in estimating the obtained data, to allocate from weight of the described facts those which analysis is expedient for continuing. This stage includes an assessment, classification, analysis and explanation of the facts.

5. Disclosure of value of the facts. It is necessary to pay attention that the fact bears in itself big semantic loading if it to consider in aggregate with other facts or in addition to specify its value therefore it is necessary to achieve in every possible way the most complete disclosure of value of each fact.

6. Hypothesis. At this stage it is necessary to construct a hypothesis about interrelation of the separate facts separated at first sight

7. At this stage it is necessary to choose analysis type.

8. Proof. At this stage it is necessary to prove or disprove justice of working hypotheses.

9. Conclusions. Here the final conclusions being the purpose of any information analysis are formulated.

10. Authentic and clear statement of results of research. Drawing up of the document finishing work. It is necessary to watch that the final document was written in the language available to the consumer of information production. If necessary for achievement of the maximum effect it is possible to use tables and charts, multimedia presentations.

It is necessary to understand that in information and analytical work it is necessary to come back repeatedly to repetition of actions. Carrying out analytical work, we should be ready to come back and to make changes to our preliminary plan each time when in the light of new data in it there will be a need.

I.     Answer the questions.

1)    In what century was analytical activity widely adopted?

2)    What is information analytics?

3) How many procedures of algorithmic sequence are given? What are they?

4)    What is IAD?

5)    What does Information analytics deal with?

II. Write down the main idea of the text in 3-5 sentences.

Lesson 4