Numerical data tutorial text

Welcome to this Engineering Village tutorial on Numerical data.

Numerical data is often used by authors of scientific literature to describe the most important aspects of their research: for example, the size of the components within a microchip, the thermal properties of material, or the bit rate of a data transfer.

Without the ability to search for numerical data, you are restricted to using keywords, such as high, low, large, deep, thick, or thin. These terms can be quite subjective. What one person considers high may be low to another.

Just how high is high and how low is low?

The numeric search filter in Engineering Village provides step-by-step guidance through the search refinement process, to facilitate precise numerical data search and discovery without having to rely on noisy and subjective keywords.

• You can specify the type from a selection of 62 different engineering and physical measurements.
• All of the units have been standardized and converted to allow you to search using the unit of your choice.
• A range of operators allow you to search for exact values or a value greater than or less than a specific value. We have also implemented range searching to allow a search for a range of values, such as a temperature range.
• Once you have entered a numeric value, you can then refine the results to your personal view of high, low, deep, or long within your subject of interest.

In summary, Numeric Search is there for when you need to delve deeper. From a selection of 62 different physical and chemical properties and with over 6.5 million records available for cross searching within the Compendex and Inspec databases, and where 460,000 different ways of writing data are matched, converted, and standardized all in one easy to use search filter that allows you to search using the unit of your choice while also incorporating range searching.

Engineering Village takes engineering research to the next level to answer today’s most timely questions through numeric search.