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English translation: cross-reference with, tabulate with (explanation below!)


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English term or phrase:map against
English translation:cross-reference with, tabulate with (explanation below!)
Entered by: Darko Kolega
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09:19 Jul 1, 2011
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Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / Corruption
English term or phrase: map against
Identification of the training needs, number of people who require ABC training, map against the ABC training.

ABC = Anti-bribery and Corruption

I don't understand this - thanks for your kind help!
Darko Kolega
Croatia
Local time: 21:52
cross-reference with, tabulate with (explanation below!)
Explanation:
There is a list of sessions that are offered within the training programme.

There is a list of the training needs of the staff.

There is a list of how many staff need each bit of training.

Then you take the 2nd and 3rd lists and apply them to the list of training sessions, giving an indication of how many people will need each session (and how many iterations of each session will need to be provided).

If it's easier to understand, another example could be a) number of people staying at a hotel who need a ground floor room, b) number of hotel rooms available on the ground floor. If a) is 6 and b) is 7, when you map them against each other, everyone will get a room. If the other way round, once person won't.

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Note added at 16 mins (2011-07-01 09:35:37 GMT)
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By the way, I've come across it a lot in sociology and business and particularly training.

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Note added at 23 mins (2011-07-01 09:42:34 GMT)
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Hi Darko - hope that helps explain the concept, then!
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Liz Broomfield
United Kingdom
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thanks!!!
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cross-reference with, tabulate with (explanation below!)


Explanation:
There is a list of sessions that are offered within the training programme.

There is a list of the training needs of the staff.

There is a list of how many staff need each bit of training.

Then you take the 2nd and 3rd lists and apply them to the list of training sessions, giving an indication of how many people will need each session (and how many iterations of each session will need to be provided).

If it's easier to understand, another example could be a) number of people staying at a hotel who need a ground floor room, b) number of hotel rooms available on the ground floor. If a) is 6 and b) is 7, when you map them against each other, everyone will get a room. If the other way round, once person won't.

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Note added at 16 mins (2011-07-01 09:35:37 GMT)
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By the way, I've come across it a lot in sociology and business and particularly training.

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Note added at 23 mins (2011-07-01 09:42:34 GMT)
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Hi Darko - hope that helps explain the concept, then!

Liz Broomfield
United Kingdom
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 26
Grading comment
thanks!!!
Notes to answerer
Asker: thanks for hotel example - I worked 8 years as front office supervisor/senior rec. :)


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Allison Wright: Love your hotel example!
3 mins
  -> Thank you - hope it makes it clearer!
agree  marybro
47 mins
  -> Thank you!
agree  Didier Fourcot: Find which modules and topics of the general training canvas match the specific needs and queries of the audience, per the concept that if you redo the same lesson twice, you should rather have it done by a machine
1 hr
  -> Thank you!
agree  Veronika McLaren
2 hrs
  -> Thank you!
agree  B D Finch: Absolutely! Mapping two or more sets of information against each other is checking where they overlap and where they differ on a set of predetermined criteria.
3 hrs
  -> Thank you! - nice explanation, too!
agree  Sheila Wilson
10 hrs
  -> Thank you!
agree  Thayenga
22 hrs
  -> Thanks!
agree  Thuy-PTT
10 days
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