Data Profile
SYSTEM 20 ALGORITHMIC GOVERNANCE
DOMAIN THE SIGNAL
DEFINITION:
A structured collection of attributes, records, characteristics, behaviors, preferences, relationships, activities, identifiers, and data points associated with an individual, group, object, organization, or entity.
FUNCTION:
Transforms dispersed information into an organized representation that can be analyzed, classified, ranked, predicted, personalized, evaluated, or acted upon by a system.
EXAMPLES:
- User profiles
- Customer profiles
- Credit profiles
- Behavioral profiles
- Social media profiles
- Consumer data records
- Risk assessment profiles
RELATED SYMBOLS:
Recommendation
Ranking
Optimization
Automation
Predictive Model
Algorithm
Classification
Identity
Score
Personalization
Prediction
Data
RELATED SYSTEMS:
20 Algorithmic Governance
21 Reputation Systems
12 Identity Programming
15 The Name Machine
09 Attention Extraction
NOTES:
Data profiles may contain demographic, behavioral, transactional, relational, geographic, historical, or preference-based information. Different systems may construct different profiles depending upon their objectives, available data, and classification frameworks.
CONTROL TEXT OBSERVATION:
Governance requires representations of what is being governed. A data profile functions as a digital abstraction that converts an individual or entity into a structured information model. Through this representation, systems can classify, predict, rank, recommend, personalize, optimize, and automate decisions affecting the profiled subject.