ISM3540 Exam 2

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Which broad area of data mining applications analyzes data, forming rules to distinguish between defined classes?

Classification

Which broad area of data mining applications partitions a collection of objects into natural groupings with similar features?

Clustering

Which of the following is a data mining myth?

Data mining requires a separate, dedicated database.

In a dataset where all values on an observation are supposed to be populated you encounter several which are empty (NULL). It is always best to replace these NULL values with the average of that column of data. (T/F)

False

In sentiment analysis, sentiment suggests a transient, temporary opinion reflective of one's feelings. (T/F)

False

In the Dell cases study, the largest issue was how to properly spend the online marketing budget. (T/F)

False

In the Miami-Dade Police Department case study, predictive analytics helped to identify the best schedule for officers in order to pay the least overtime. (T/F)

False

In the Salesforce case study, streaming data is used to identify services that customers use most. (T/F)

False

In the cancer research case study, data mining algorithms that predict cancer survivability with high predictive power are good replacements for medical professionals. (T/F)

False

In the car insurance case study, text mining was used to identify auto features that caused injuries. (T/F)

False

In the evolution of social media user engagement, the largest recent change is the growth of creators. (T/F)

False

In the opening case, police detectives used data mining to identify possible new areas of inquiry. (T/F)

False

K-fold cross-validation is also called sliding estimation. (T/F)

False

Market basket analysis is a useful and entertaining way to explain data mining to a technologically less savvy audience, but it has little business significance. (T/F)

False

Open-source data mining tools include applications such as IBM SPSS Modeler and Dell Statistica. (T/F)

False

Ratio data is a type of categorical data. (T/F)

False

Search engine optimization (SEO) techniques play a minor role in a Web site's search ranking because only well-written content matters. (T/F)

False

Search engines are only used in the context of the World Wide Web (WWW). (T/F)

False

Since little can be done about visitor Web site abandonment rates, organizations have to focus their efforts on increasing the number of new visitors. (T/F)

False

Text analytics is the subset of text mining that handles information retrieval and extraction, plus data mining. (T/F)

False

The entire focus of the predictive analytics system in the Infinity P&C case was on detecting and handling fraudulent claims for the company's benefit. (T/F)

False

Understanding which keywords your users enter to reach your Web site through a search engine can help you understand

How well visitors understand your products

Allowing Big Data to be processed in memory and distributed across a dedicated set of nodes can solve complex problems in near-real time with highly accurate insights. What is this process called?

In-memory analytics

In the Influence Health case study, what was the goal of the system?

Increasing service use

Identifying and preventing incorrect claim payments and fraudulent activities falls under which type of data mining applications?

Insurance

The data field "ethnic group" can be best described as

Nominal data

What are the two main types of Web analytics?

Off-site and on-site Web analytics

In a Hadoop "stack," what node periodically replicates and stores data from the Name Node should it fail?

Secondary node

In the Wimbledon case study, the tournament used data for each match in real time to highlight

Significant events

Clustering partitions a collection of things into segments whose members share

Similar characteristics

In sentiment analysis, which of the following is an implicit opinion?

The customer service I got for my TV was laughable.

All of the following statements about data mining are true EXCEPT:

The ideas behind it are relatively new.

In the research literature case study, the researchers analyzing academic papers extracted information from which source?

The paper abstract

Articles and auxiliary verbs are assigned little value in text mining and are usually filtered out. (T/F)

True

Big Data is being driven by the exponential growth, availability, and use of information. (T/F)

True

Categorization and clustering of documents during text mining differ only in the preselection of categories. (T/F)

True

Clickstream analysis does not need users to enter their perceptions of the Web site or other feedback directly to be useful in determining their preferences. (T/F)

True

Converting continuous valued numerical variables to ranges and categories is referred to as discretization. (T/F)

True

Current use of sentiment analysis in voice of the customer applications allows companies to change their products or services in real time in response to customer sentiment. (T/F)

True

During classification in data mining, a false positive is an occurrence classified as true by the algorithm while being false in reality. (T/F)

True

For low latency, interactive reports, a data warehouse is preferable to Hadoop. (T/F)

True

Hadoop was designed to handle petabytes and exabytes of data distributed over multiple nodes in parallel. (T/F)

True

If you have many flexible programming languages running in parallel, Hadoop is preferable to a data warehouse. (T/F)

True

In data mining, classification models help in prediction. (T/F)

True

In sentiment analysis, it is hard to classify some subjects such as news as good or bad, but easier to classify others, e.g., movie reviews, in the same way. (T/F)

True

In text mining, if an association between two concepts has 7% support, it means that 7% of the documents had both concepts represented in the same document. (T/F)

True

In the Wimbledon case study, designers balanced the needs of mobile and desktop computer users. (T/F)

True

In the opening vignette, the Access Telecom (AT), built a system to better visualize customers who were unhappy before they canceled their service. (T/F)

True

It is important for Big Data and self-service business intelligence to go hand in hand to get maximum value from analytics. (T/F)

True

Regional accents present challenges for natural language processing. (T/F)

True

The cost of data storage has plummeted recently, making data mining feasible for more firms. (T/F)

True

Using data mining on data about imports and exports can help to detect tax avoidance and money laundering. (T/F)

True

When a problem has many attributes that impact the classification of different patterns, decision trees may be a useful approach. (T/F)

True

Which of the following statements about Web site conversion statistics is FALSE?

Visitors who begin a purchase on most Web sites must complete it.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a means by which

Web site developers can increase Web site search rankings.

In text analysis, what is a lexicon?

a catalog of words, their synonyms, and their meanings

In the opening vignette, the architectural system that supported Watson used all the following elements EXCEPT

a core engine that could operate seamlessly in another domain without changes.

What does the robustness of a data mining method refer to?

its ability to overcome noisy data to make somewhat accurate predictions

All of the following statements about data mining are true EXCEPT

the process aspect means that data mining should be a one-step process to results.

The Eckerson survey of 2002 estimated the total cost (to the US yearly economy) of dirty data to be approximately:

$600 Billion USD

A company/organization can encounter dirty data in the form of

All of these

Natural language processing (NLP) is associated with which of the following areas?

All of these

In data mining, finding an affinity of two products to be commonly together in a shopping cart is known as

Association rule mining

You are tasked with accumulating survey data on a web page and are responsible for it being free from dirty data once you close the survey and get the data to the researching team. Which is the best way to handle the possibility of dirty data?

Build a website that validates data as the survey participant takes the survey.

Companies understand that when their product goes "viral," the content of the online conversations about their product does not matter, only the volume of conversations. (T/F)

False

In a Hadoop "stack," what is a slave node?

a node where data is stored and processed

What does Web content mining involve?

analyzing the unstructured content of Web pages

Understanding customers better has helped Amazon and others become more successful. The understanding comes primarily from

analyzing the vast data amounts routinely collected.

In text mining, tokenizing is the process of

categorizing a block of text in a sentence.


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