Business Intelligence

Question 1

central repository of information, queryable source of of data for enterprise, used for analysis and not transaction processing, data in a ??? ??? is nonvolatile, is target location for integrating data from external / internal sources to an enterprise. Is arranged around relevant subject areas important to corp. as a whole.

Answer 1

data warehouse

Question 2

expose in greater detail

Answer 2

drill down

Question 3

dimensions of data analyzed in ??? are arranged in cube structure (hypercube).

Answer 3

OLAP

Question 4

assemble infrastructure needed for aggregating the raw data sets and for app of the transformation to be forwarded to data warehouse, usually combo of hardware / management software known as staging area.

Answer 4

ETL (Extraction Stage)

Question 5

data type conversion, data cleansing, integration, referential integrity check, derivations, aggregation, audit information, null conversion.

Answer 5

ETL (Transformation Stage)

Question 6

based on continuous improvement of business process driven by discovery of actionable knowledge and taking action.

Answer 6

Virtuous Cycle

Question 7

when we already have the problem we want to solve and apply data mining methods to discover relationship between variables under scrutiny in terms of other available variables.

Answer 7

directed knowledge

Question 8

using data mining techniques to find interesting patterns w/in data set as way to highlight some potentially interesting issue.

Answer 8

undirected knowledge

Question 9

examining attributes of object and assigning it to a defined class.

Answer 9

Classification

Question 10

assigning some continuously valued numeric value to an object.

Answer 10

Estimation