Vangie Beal

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Vangie Beal is a digital literacy instructor based in Nova Scotia, Canada, who has recently joined Techopedia. She’s an award-winning business and technology writer with 20 years of experience in the technology and web publishing industry.

Since the late ’90s, her byline has appeared in dozens of publications, including CIO, Webopedia, Computerworld, InternetNews, Small Business Computing, and many other tech and business publications.

She is an avid gamer with deep roots in the female gaming community and a former Internet TV gaming host and games journalist.

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Quantization

What is Quantization? Quantization is a process aimed at simplifying data representation by reducing precision – the number of bits...

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Chmod 755

What is chmod 755? Chmod 755 is a command used to change the mode (permissions) of a file or directory...

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Knowledge Extraction

What is Knowledge Extraction? Knowledge extraction is a process used to extract structured information – or knowledge – from a...

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Value Stream Management (VSM)

What is Value Stream Management (VSM)? Value stream management (VSM) is a strategic approach and set of practices utilized by...

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