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| ==== Example ==== | ==== Example ==== | ||
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| In this example of PowerSearch, a user is trying to find a person in the database. They searched the database with many incorrect pieces of information, but still found who they were looking for. | In this example of PowerSearch, a user is trying to find a person in the database. They searched the database with many incorrect pieces of information, but still found who they were looking for. | ||
| + | The user was looking for a Bill Meyers who lived on Fifth Avenue in NY, NY. They provided zip codes, phone numbers, and an email address. All of those were incorrect pieces of information, but they were still enough to find the record. | ||
| - | Nonetheless, they were able find the record they were looking for using PowerSearch. | ||
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| - | In this example, the user made a lot of mistakes providing information: | + | \\ |
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| + | ==== How PowerSearch Helped ==== | ||
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| + | This is a classic example of how difficult it can be to find what you are looking for in a database. The user entered all of the information he knew, and without PowerSearch, he would not have found what he was looking for. Here are the tools that PowerSearch used to locate the record: | ||
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| + | ^ Column ^ User Input ^ Actual Data ^ PowerSearch Technique ^ | ||
| + | | First Name | Bill | William | Synonym list of given names | | ||
| + | | Last Name | Meyers | Myers | Phonetic search | | ||
| + | | Address | 825 Fifth Avenue | 825 5th Ave | Synonym list of postal abbreviations | | ||
| + | | City | NY | New York | Synonyn list of city abbreviations | | ||
| + | | Zip Code | 10022 | 10021 | Geographic search for nearby zip codes | | ||
| + | | Area Code | 917 | 212 | Synonym list of shared area codes | | ||
| + | | Phone Number | 755-4686 | 775-4866 | Transposition and incorrect digits | | ||
| + | | E-mail Address | wmeyers@med.cornell.edu | wmyers@med.cornell.edu | Misspelling search | | ||
| - | * They searched for **Bill Meyers**, but the database recorded him as **William Myers**, with differences in both the first and last name. | + | PowerSearch has a wide variety of tools that can be combined to help find data. Custom synonym lists and misspelling searches are most commonly used, but there are many other tools to choose from. PowerSearch also lets you develop your own synonym lists that are appropriate for your database. |
| - | * They searched for **Fifth Avenue** in **NY**, but the database recorded the alternative spelling of **5th Ave** and the correct city of **New York**. | + | |
| - | * They searched for the zip code of **10022**, but Dr. Myers live in **10021**, an adjacent zip code less than one mile away. | + | |
| - | * They searched for Dr. Myers using his phone number, but used used an alternate area code of **917** within New York, rather than **212**. They also provided a phone number prefix with wrong digits and a`phone number suffix with transpositions. | + | |
| - | * They provided a misspelled email address, which was predictable since they misspelled the last name as well. | + | |
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