Using MIS Chapter 9

A ________ takes data from the data manufacturers, cleans and processes the data, and locates the data on the shelves.

Date warehouse

A decision tree analysis is a supervised data mining technique.

False

Placing BI applications on operational servers can dramatically increase system performance.

False

________ records the source, format, assumptions and constraints, and other facts about the data.

Metadata

A reporting application is a BI application that inputs data from one or more sources and applies reporting operations to that data to produce business intelligence.

True

Data mining is the application of statistical techniques to find patterns and relationships among data for classification and prediction.

True

Hadoop is an open-source program supported by the Apache Foundation4 that implements MapReduce on potentially thousands of computers.

True

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

True

The five basic reporting operations that produce business intelligence can all be accomplished using SQL and basic HTML or a simple report writing tool.

True

The software component of a BI system is called a BI application.

True