CIS CHAPTER 1
Report
A document containing data organized in a table, matrix, or graphical format allowing users to easily comprehend and understand information.
INFORMATION AGE
A time when infinite quantities of facts are widely available to anyone who can use a computer. example: amazon - books netflix - video zappos- shoes
internet of things (IOT)
A world where interconnected Internet- enabled devices or "things" have the ability to collect and share data without human intervention.
Structured Data
Data that has a defined length, type , and format and includes numbers, dates, or string such as Customer Address. example: is stored in a traditional system such as a relational database or spreadsheet.
Unstructured data
Data that is not defined and does not follow a specified format and is typically free-form text such as emails, twitter, and text.
Business Intelligence (BI)
Info collected from multiple sources such as suppliers, customers, competitors, partners , and industries that analyze patterns, trends and relationships for strategic decision making.
Sources of Structure Data :
Machine- Generated Data Human-Generated Data
Data
Raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event or object.
Machine-to-Machine (M2M
Refers to devices that connect directly to other devices. - another example of internet of things.
Prescriptive Analytics
Techniques that create models indicating the best decision to make or course of action to take.
Descriptive analytics
Techniques that describe past performance and history.
Big Data
a collection of large, complex data, sets including structured and unstructured data, which cannot be analyzed using traditional database methods and tools.
variable
a data characteristics that stands for a value that changes or varies over time.
dynamic report
a report that changes automatically during creation.
static report
a reported created once based on data that does not change
Snapshot
a view of data at a particular moment in time
Fact
confirmation or validation of an event or object. example: in the past, people primarily learned facts from books.
Machine-generated data
created by a machine without human intervention. Sensor data, point of sale data, web log data
Information
data converted into a meaningful and useful context
Human-generated data
data that humans, in interaction with computers, generate. Input data, Click stream data, gaming data.
Predictive analytics
techniques that extract info from data and uses it to predict future trends and identify behavioral patterns.
Analytics
the science of fact-based decision making
Business analytics
the scientific process of transforming data into insight for making better decisions