ISDS 415 Self Assessment Chp3

_________ are typically used together with other charts and graphs, as opposed to by themselves, and show postal codes, country names, etc

MAPS

___________ charts or network diagrams show precedence relationships among the project activities/tasks.

PERT

__________________ charts are useful in displaying nominal data or numerical data that splits nicely into different categories so you can quickly see comparative results and trends

bar

Why is the customer perspective important in the balanced scorecard methodology?

because dissatisfied customers will eventually hurt the bottom line

Why is a performance management system superior to a performance measurement system?

because measurement alone has little use without action

Travel and Transport created an online BI self-service system that allowed _________ to access information directly

clients

___________ management reports are used to manage business performance through outcome-oriented metrics in many organizations.

metric

The Internet emerged as a new medium for visualization and brought all the following EXCEPT

new forms of computation of business logic.

Which type of visualization tool can be very helpful when the intention is to show relative proportions of dollars per department allocated by a university administration?

pie chart

Visual analytics is widely regarded as the combination of visualization and ________ analytics

predictive(not sure)

Dashboards present visual displays of important information that are consolidated and arranged on a single _______

screen

In the Blastrac case study, Tableau analytics software was used to replace massive _________ that were loaded with data from multiple ERP systems

spreadsheets

Benefits of the latest visual analytics tools, such as SAS Visual Analytics, include all of the following EXCEPT

they explore massive amounts of data in hours, not days

Typical charts, graphs, and other visual elements used in visualization-based applications usually involve _____ dimensions

two

In the Saudi Telecom company case study, information _________ software allowed managers to see trends and correct issues before they became problems.

visualization