MBUS 302 - Ch 6

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An interactive website kept constantly updated and relevant to the needs of its customers using a database

A data driven website

Is there an incorrect value in the information?

Accurate

Determines which things go together

Affinity group

Examples of transactional information

Airline ticket, sales receipt, packing slip

Enforce business rules vital to an organization's success and often require more insight and knowlege than relation integrity contraints

Business critical integrity constraints

What is the solution to the problem of being data-rich and information poor?

Business intelligence

What tracks corporate metrics such as critical success factors and key performance indicators and include advanced capabilities such as interactive controls allowing users to manipulate data for analysis?

Business intelligence dashboards

What defines how a company performs certain aspects of its business and typically results either a yes/no or true/false answer?

Business rule

Assigns records to one of a predefined set of classes

Classification

What is a technique used to divide information sets into mutually exclusive groups such that the members of each group are as close together as possible to one another and the different groups are as far apart as possible?

Cluster analysis

Segments a heterogeneous population of records into a number of more homogeneous subgroups

Clustering

Is a value missing from the information?

Complete

Is aggregate or summary information in agreement with detailed information?

Consistent

Who is the person responsible for creating the original website content?

Content creator

Who is the person responsible for updating and maintaining website content?

Content editor

What complies all of the metadata about the data elements in the data model?

Data dictionary

Two terms representing the smallest or basic unit of information

Data field/element

Refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of company data

Data governance

Occurs on structured data that are already in a database or a spreadsheet

Data mining

What is process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone?

Data mining

What uses a variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information that predict future behavior and guide decision making?

Data mining tools

Logical data structures that detail the relationships among data elements using graphics or pictures

Data models

What determines the accuracy and completeness of its data?

Data quality audits

The problem with too much information

Data rich, information poor

Describes technologies that allow users to "see" or visualize data to transform information into a business perspective

Data visualization

Move beyond excel graphs and charts into sophisticated analysis techniques such as pie charts, controls, instruments, maps, time-series graphs, and more.

Data visualization tools

A logical collection of information, gathered from many different operational databases, that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks.

Data warehouse

Maintains information about various types of objects (inventory), events (transactional), people (employees)

Database

What is an area of a website that stores information about products in a database?

Dynamic catalog

Includes information that can change based on user actions

Dynamic information

What is a process that transforms information using a common set of enterprise definitions, loads information into a data warehouse, and extracts information from internal and external databases

ETL

Three advantages of a data-driven website

Easy to store large amounts of data, easy to manage content, easy to eliminate human errors

What stores information about a person, place, thing, transaction, or event?

Entity

Determines values for an unknown continuous variable behavior or estimated future value

Estimation

A process that extracts information from internal and external databases, transforms it using a common set of enterprise definitions, and loads it into a data warehouse

Extraction, transformation, and loading

What are predictions based on time series information?

Forecast

Examples of analytical information

Future growth and trends, sales projections, product statistics

Displays information graphically so it can be easily understood

Infographics

Two terms that describe the process for weeding out, fixing, or discarding inconsistent incorrect or incomplete information

Information cleansing, scrubbing

The common term for the representation of multidimensional information

Information cube

Documents, presentations, spreadsheets, database

Information formats

Detail, summary, aggregate

Information granularities

What occurs when the same data element has different values

Information inconsistency

Individual, department, enterprise

Information levels

Four primary traits of the value of information

Information quality, timeliness, governance, type

The duplication of data, or the storage of the same data in multiple places

Information redundacy

Accessing large amounts of data from different management information systems

Informing

Rules to help ensure the quality of information

Integrity constraints

What focuses on how individual users logically access information to meet their own particular business needs?

Logical view of information

Analyzes such items as websites and checkout scanner information to detect customers; buying behavior and predict future behavior by identifying affinities among customer's choices of products and services

Market basket analysis

What provides details about data?

Metadata

What deals with the physical storage of information on a storage device?

Physical view of information

A field or group of fields that uniquely identifies a given record in a table

Primary key

Which system provides real-time information in response to requests?

Real-time

Means immediate, up-to-date information

Real-time information

What is a collection of related data elements?

Records

Three statements reflecting the business advantages of a relational database

Reduced information redundacy, increased information security, increased information integrity

What stores information in the form of logically related two-dimensional tables?

Relational data base model

Management system allows users to create, read, update and in a relational database

Relational database management system

What are rules that enforce basic and fundamental information based constraints?

Relational integrity constraints

What includes fixed data incapable of change in the event of a user action?

Static information

What performs such functions as information correlations, distributions, calculations and variations analysis?

Statistical analysis

Three common forms for mining structured and unstructured data

Statistical analysis, association detection, cluster analysis

Analyzes unstructured data to find trends and patterns in words and sentences

Text mining

Time stamped information collected at a particular frequency

Time-series information

What is timestamped information collected at a particular frequency?

Time-series information

Is the information current with respect to business needs?

Timely?

Encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work, and its primary purpose is to support daily operational tasks

Transactional information

Is each transaction and event represented only once in the information?

Unique

What does not exist in a fixed location and can include text documents, PDFs, voice messages, emails, and so?

Unstructured data

Four functions that a data base management system can perform on data in a database?

Update, delete, read, and create data

Why does a database offer increased information security?

Various security features of databases ensure that individuals have only certain types of access to certain types of information

What analyzes unstructured data associated with websites to identify consumer behavior and website navigation?

Web mining

When do information integrity issues occur?

When a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or duplicate data

Contains a subset of data warehouse information

data mart

What is a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables?

foreign key

Organizational information coms in different levels, formats, and ________

granularities

A measure of the quality of information

information integrity

While database has only one _______, it can easily support ______ that provides for flexibility

one physical view, multiple logical views

One primary goal of a database is to eliminate information redundacy by recording each piece of information in _____ place in the database

only one

Four primary reasons low-quality information occurs in a system

1.Online customers intentionally enter inaccurate information to protect their privacy 2.Data entry personnel enter abbreviated information to save time 3. Third-party and external information contains inconsistencies and errors 4. Different systems have different information entry standards and formats

Helps users graphically design the answer to a question against a database

An query-by example tool

Asks usres to write lines of code to answer questions against a database

An structure query language

Encompasses all organizational information, primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks

Analytical information

Reveals the relationship between variables along with the nature and frequency of the relationships

Association detection

What are the data elements associated with an entity?

Attributes

Three terms that represent the data elements associated with an entity

Attributes, Fields, Columns


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