Exam 12: Decision Making and Business Intelligence

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Experts in a communications company believe that cell phone usage on weekends is determined by the age of the customer and the number of months the customer has the cell phone account. Which of the following technique could be used to analyze the data?

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With supervised data mining, analysts create a model or hypothesis before running the analysis.

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The decision to use batch or real-time processing should depend upon

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Using specific examples, describe data granularity.

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To realize a competitive advantage from data an organization must

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The purpose of (a) ________ is to extract and clean data from operational systems and other sources.

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In most cases, data-mining systems are used to make

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The data resource challenge refers to the lack of data to support decision making.

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Reporting systems are programs that read data from a variety of sources, process that data, produce and deliver formatted reports to users.

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With________, data miners develop a model prior to the analysis and apply statistical techniques to data to estimate parameters of the model.

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A nonprofit organization can process a donation without knowing the donor's gender or age, but a data mining application that looks at differences in donation behaviours based on gender would be impaired. This data problem is known as

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OLAP provides the ability to sum, count, average, and perform other simple arithmetic operations on groups of data.

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While data may be collected in OLTP, the data may not be used to improve decision making. We refer to this as the ________.

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________ process data using sophisticated statistical techniques like regression analysis and decision tree analysis.

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________ is data about data.

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An RFM analysis is a

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Why does the exponential growth in data matter?

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Which of the following is (are) an example(s) of dirty data?

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Regression analysis measures the impact of a set of variables on another variable.

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________ is a statistical technique that can identify groups of entities that have similar characteristics.

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