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		In the first article in today's newsletter, Understanding Performance and Collaborative Workspaces, Colin White discusses workspaces and how they provide an integrated information management environment that improves employee performance and productivity.
		The second article, Accuracy, Sampling and the Accuracy of Sampling, by David Loshin, looks at the dimension of data accuracy and why it is often impossible to automate the determination of accuracy.
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New Articles

Understanding Performance and Collaborative
Workspaces
by Colin White
Both performance and collaborative workspaces are key to providing business users with the personalized information they need to do their jobs.

Accuracy, Sampling and the Accuracy of Sampling
by David Loshin
Manually verifying data accuracy is bound to introduce errors. Therefore, sampling can be used to derive some conclusions about a large body of information by selecting a smaller number of instances for the purposes of inferencing.

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