Data Flashcards
What is the concept that visualizes data into the information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy?
The Data Pyramid
What are the four levels of the day at pyramid starting from bottom?
Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom
What level on the data pyramid represents raw statements like 18:38, on, or off?
Data
What level on the data pyramid provides meanings like it is 6:38pm or the light is on?
Information
What level on the data pyramid gives context like the room I am working in is dark?
Knowledge
What level on the data pyramid gives applied thought like it is dark. I should turn on the light.
Wisdom
What includes raw facts or observations?
Data
Once data is organized, what can be inferred by asking who, what, where and how to use data?
Information
What is dynamic combination of experience, values, information, expertise and grounded intuition that provides an environment and framework for evaluating new experiences and information?
Knowledge
What is the key term associated with knowledge?
Context
What is knowing the right thing to do?
Wisdom
What is data coded in a way that makes it easy to convert into a form usable for analysis?
Structured Data
What term refers to data that is more complex and possibly stored in a format that is not easily decided, like texts, videos, comments?
Unstructured data
What is the term for a large collection of data that is incapable of being processed by previous generations of analytical tools?
Big Data
Big companies use what to analyze customer experience, model customers and align their product offerings to specific customer characteristics?
Data science
What is a collection of data and information used to support decision making in an organization?
Information Systems
What is the term that for sensitive data like social security numbers, names and telephone numbers ?
Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Infrastructure used to manage data in an organization is referred to as what?
Data Architecture
What can change often within a business that necessitates flexible architecture to allow for both data collection and analysis?
Business requirements
Data can reside in what two places?
In house or in the cloud
What are the three core variations of a cloud based system?
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
What cloud solution provides access in a virtualized environment with computing resources on virtualized hardware?
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
What cloud solution model provides customers to a platform that supports the development and management of web applications?
Platform as a Service(PaaS)
What cloud model provides licensed software to customers with subscriptions and central testing?
Software as a Solution (SaaS)
What are two of the systems that companies can find data to analyze a business process?
Customer Relationship Management system (CRM)
Enterprise Resource Management System (ERM)
What are the three steps for transforming informational knowledge into implementable data solutions?
1) capturing
2) analyzing
3) using
What is the term for the process of ensuring the cleanliness of data?
Data Hygiene
What is the term for the process of amending or removing data in a database that is incorrect, incomplete, improperly formatted, or duplicated?
Data Scrubbing
What type of bad data involves two or more identical records?
Duplicate data
What type of bad data includes the same records with different attributes?
Conflicting data
What type of bad data has missing attributes?
Incomplete data
What type of bad data has data that does not conform to standardization?
Invalid Data
What type of bad data is not shared between two systems?
Unsynchronized Data
What term is used for data that is precise, valid, reliable, timely and complete?
Quality Data
What quality describes data that is in the context of its intended use?
Precision
What term describes data that meets the requirements of the data collection process?
Valid
What term describes data that is consistent regardless of where it resides or how it was collected?
Reliable
What term describes data that was collected at the right time to be relevant to decision making?
Timely
What term describes data that is thorough providing a full view of the relevant picture?
Complete
