ITEC39_MIDTERM Flashcards

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collective information that gives you the ability to make effective, important, and strategic business decisions

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Business intelligence

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2
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the science of fact-based decision making

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Analytics

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3
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information used in decision making

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Data Warehouse

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4
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collection of information that you organize and access according to the logical structure of the information

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Database

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5
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series of logically related two-dimensional tables or files for storing information

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Relational database

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= table = file

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Relation

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7
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Most popular database model

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Relational database model

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8
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field (or group of fields) that uniquely describes each record

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Primary Key

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9
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primary key of one file that appears in another file

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Foreign Key

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10
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helps you specify the logical requirements for a database and access and use the information in a database

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Database management system (DBMS)

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11
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Help you build and work with BI and some forms of knowledge

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DATA WAREHOUSES AND DATA MINING

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12
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collection of information (from many places) that supports business analysis activities and decision making

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Data Warehouse

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13
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subset of a data warehouse in which only a focused portion of the data warehouse information is kept

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Data Mart

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Information is a resource you must manage and organize to help the organization meet its goals and objectives

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Information Ownership

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15
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a highly flexible and interactive system that is designed to support decision making when the problem is not structured

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Decision support system

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help you analyze, but you must know how to solve the problem, and how to use the results of the analysis

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Decision support systems

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17
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DSS designed specifically to analyze spatial information

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Geographic information system

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18
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Spatial information is any information in map form

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Geographic information system

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19
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what software use to analyze information, generate business intelligence, and make decisions

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GIS

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20
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highly computational data-mining technology that uses information and business intelligence to build a predictive model for a given business application

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Predictive analytics

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uses statistical, AI, and linguistic technologies to convert textual information into structured information

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Text analytics

22
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uses text analytics to make sense of customer satisfaction surveys

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Gaylord Hotels

23
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the science of making machines imitate human thinking and behavior, can replace human decision making in some instances

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Artificial intelligence

24
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an artificial intelligence system that applies reasoning capabilities to reach a conclusion

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Expert (knowledge-based) system

25
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an artificial intelligence system that is capable of finding and differentiating patterns

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Neural network (artificial neural network or ANN)

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a mathematical method of handling imprecise or subjective information, like “short” or “tall”

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Fuzzy logic

27
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an artificial intelligence system that mimics the evolutionary, survival-of-the-fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem

Take millions of solutions and determines the optimal one

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Genetic algorithm

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piece of software that acts on your behalf (or on behalf of another piece of software) performing tasks assigned to it

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Agent-based technology (software agent)

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learning from ecosystems and adapting their characteristics to human and organizational situations

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Biomimicry

30
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the collective behavior of groups of simple agents that are capable of devising solutions to problems as they arise, eventually learning to coherent global patterns

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Swarm (collective) intelligence

31
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BI stands for?

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Business Intelligence

32
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OLTP stands for?

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Online transaction processing

33
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OLAP stands for

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Online analytical processing

34
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DBMS stands for?

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Database Management System

35
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DSS stands for?

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Decision support system

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GIS stands for?

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Geographic information system

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ANN stands for?

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Artificial neural network

38
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DBMS engine ( 4 )

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Data definition
Data manipulation
Application Generation
Data administration

39
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5 Components of a DBMS

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DBMS engine
Data definition subsystem
Data manipulation subsystem
Application generation subsystem
Data administration subsystem

40
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The Tool Set of the Analytics Professional

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Query and Reporting Tools
Artificial Intelligence
Multidimensional Analysis Tools
Digital Dashboards
Statistical Tools

41
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The Analytics Life Cycle

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Gather analytics needs
Find the data
ETL
Mine the data

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DECISIONS AND DECISION SUPPORT

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Intelligence
Design
Choice
Implementation

43
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predictive model for a given business application

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Insurance
retail
healthcare
travel
financial services
CRM
SCM
credit scoring

44
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Lots of Analytics

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Web analytics
HR analytics
Marketing analytics
CRM analytics
Social media analytics
Mobile analytics

45
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human decision making in some instances

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Expert systems
Neural networks (and fuzzy logic)
Genetic algorithms
Agent-based technologies

46
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an artificial intelligence system that applies reasoning capabilities to reach a conclusion
Used for

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Diagnostic problems (what’s wrong?)
Prescriptive problems (what to do?)

47
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AGENT-BASED TECHNOLOGIES

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Autonomous Agent
Distributed Agent
Mobile Agent
Intelligent Agent
Multi-Agents Systems

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