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Intro to Big Data Final Flashcards

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What is business intelligence?

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An umbrella term that combines architectures, tools, databases, analytical tools, applications and methodologies.

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What is the major objective of business intelligence?

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To enable interactive, sometimes real time data to give business managers and analysts the ability to conduct appropriate analyses

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What is the process of BI based upon?

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Transformation

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Who came up with the term Business Intelligence, and when?

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Gartner Group in the mid-1990s

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What are the four major components of a BI system?

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A DW
Business analytics
BPM
User interface / dashboard

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What legislation requires business leaders to document their business processes and sign off on their legitimacy?

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Sarbanes-Oxley Act

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What is BI not?

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Transaction processing

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What is OLTP?

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Online transaction processing, a system that handles a company’s routine ongoing business. Store SCM & CRM data

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What is OLAP

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Online analytical processing systems, use DW

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What is BAM?

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Business activity management

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What are shells?

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Preprogrammed tools where all you have to do is insert your numbers

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What is the definition of analytics?

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The process of developing actionable decisions or recommendations for actions based on insights generated from historical data

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What are the three levels of Business Analytics?

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Descriptive, Predictive, Prescriptive

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What are descriptive analytics?

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Reporting analytics, knowing what is happening in the organization and understanding some underlying trends and causes of such occurrences

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What are predictive analytics?

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They aim to determine what is likely to happen in the future

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What are prescriptive analytics?

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goal is to recognize what is going on as well as the likely forecast and make decisions to achieve the best performance possible (aka decision or normative analytics)

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What is a data warehouse?

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DW is a pool of data produced to support decision making; it is also a repository of current and historical data of potential interest to managers throughout the organization

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What is teradata?

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symbolize the ability to manage terabytes (trillions of bytes) of data

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What are the characteristics of Data Warehousing?

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Subject oriented (comprehensive view of org)
Integrated
Time variant (time series)
Nonvolatile
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What is a data mart?

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a smaller version of a DW that focuses on a particular subject or department

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What is a dependent data mart?

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DM created directly from the Data Warehouse

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What is an independent data mart?

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Small warehouse designed for a strategic business unit or a department but its source is not an EDW

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What is an Operational Data Store?

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provides a fairly recent form of customer information file
updated throughout the course of business operations
used for short-term decisions

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What are oper marts?

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created when operational data needs to be analyzed multidimensionally

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What is EDW?

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Enterprise data warehouse

large-scale data warehouse that is used across the enterprise for decision support

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What is Metadata?

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Data about data
describe the structure of and some meaning about data
usually either technical or business metadata

27
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What are the text mining techniques?

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  1. Term frequency-Inverse document frequency
  2. Named entity recognition
  3. Topic modeling
  4. Event extraction
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What is TF-IDF?

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Term frequency-Inverse document frequency
looks at how frequently a word appears in a document and relative to the whole set of documents
Used to build classifiers or predictive models

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What is NER?

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Named entity recognition

Recognizes nouns and could be used to extract persons, organizations, locations, dates, monetary amounts

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What is topic modeling?

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Identifies dominant themes in a vast array of documents

31
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What is Latent Dirichlet Allocation?

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words automatically clustered by mixture of topics in each document

32
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What is probabilistic latent semantic indexing?

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models co-occurring probability

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What is event extraction?

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A step further than NER and harder
It looks at the relationship between nouns
looks at kinds of inferences that can be made from incidents in the text

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What is the text mining process?

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  1. Establish the Corpus: Collect & Organize the Domain Specific Unstructured Data
  2. Create the Term-Document Matrix: Introduce the structure to the Corpus
  3. Extract Knowledge: Discover Novel Patterns from the T-D Matrix
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What is Web Usage Mining?

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extraction of information from data generated through web page visits and transactions

36
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What is the goal of sentiment analysis?

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What do people feel about a certain topic?

37
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What are the characteristics of Big Data?

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Volume
Variety
Velocity
Variability
Veracity
Value
38
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What is Hadoop?

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An open source framework for storing, analyzing massive amounts of distributed, unstructure data

39
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What are the Big Data core technologies?

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MapReduce + Hadoop

40
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What is MapReduce?

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A programming model that distributes processing of very large multi-structured data files across a large cluster of ordinary machines/processors. Developed and popularized by Google.

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What are data mining characteristics?

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  1. Source of data for DM is often a consolidated data warehouse
  2. DM environment is usually a client-server of a web-based information systems architecture
  3. Data for DM includes only structured data
  4. The miner is always an end user
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What are the most common standard processes for data mining?

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  1. CRISP-DM

2. SEMMA

43
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What is CRISP-DM?

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Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining

44
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What is SEMMA?

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Sample, Explore, Modify, Model, and Assess

45
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What are the phases for data mining?

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  1. Define the problem
  2. Identify required data
  3. Prepare and pre-process
  4. Model the data
  5. Train and test
  6. Verify and deploy
46
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What is simple split?

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splitting the data into 2 mutually exclusive sets training (~70%) and testing (30%)

47
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What are the data mining methods?

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  1. Classification
  2. Regression
  3. Cluster
  4. Association Rule Mining
48
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What are the types of Business Reporting?

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  1. Metric Management Reports
  2. Visualizations/Dashboard
  3. Balanced Scorecard
49
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What does a balanced scorecard do?

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Translates an organization’s financial, customer, internal process into a set of actionable initiatives.

50
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What is the definition of data?

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A collection of facts usually obtained as a result of experiences, observations, or experiments

51
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What are inferential statistics?

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Drawing inferences about the population based on sample data

52
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What is a histogram?

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A frequency chart

53
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What is Kurtosis?

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detects the peak/tall/skinny nature of distribution

54
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What is skewness?

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Measure of asymmetry

55
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What is regression?

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a part of inferential statistics, used to characterize relationship between explanatory (input) and response (output) variable

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