BCOR 2205 Midterm EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED AND WELL
DETAILED ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
The three V's - ✔✔apply to big data
Velocity: data speed
Variety: data types
Volume: data quantity
Digital Exhaust - ✔✔Unstructured information or data that is a by-product of the
online activities of Internet users: Collecting and analyzing data exhaust can provide
valuable insight into the purchasing habits of consumers.
Big data in business - ✔✔to secure data:
fingerprints
voice recognition
To improve customer experience:
refine marketing strategy
modifying/stocking goods
consumer trends and churn
Big Data in Healthcare - ✔✔Epidemic/ disease outbreak prediction
Individual disease predictions
Increased access to databases on symptoms and new treatments
Real time monitoring of patients
, data brokers - ✔✔companies that collect and sell personal information about
consumers
Structured v Unstructured Data - ✔✔structured data: data that can be stored in a
table or database (our focus)
Unstructured data: does not reside in fixed locations
Up to how much faster can Google predict the flu than the CDC? - ✔✔2 weeks
What is meant by "word birth"? - ✔✔the first time a baby/or toddler says a new
word
Timeline of AI - ✔✔Early AI (1950's) --> Machine Learning (1980's) --> Deep Learning
(2010's)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - ✔✔Machines that can perform tasks that are a
characteristic of human intelligence
Earliest AI - ✔✔Automated checkers against a CPU
Types of Artificial Intelligence - ✔✔General
Narrow
Narrow AI - ✔✔The type of AI that exists today
Technologies that are able to perform specific tasks as well as (or better- faster, more
accurate, better endurance) than humans can
CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED AND WELL
DETAILED ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATE 2024/2025
The three V's - ✔✔apply to big data
Velocity: data speed
Variety: data types
Volume: data quantity
Digital Exhaust - ✔✔Unstructured information or data that is a by-product of the
online activities of Internet users: Collecting and analyzing data exhaust can provide
valuable insight into the purchasing habits of consumers.
Big data in business - ✔✔to secure data:
fingerprints
voice recognition
To improve customer experience:
refine marketing strategy
modifying/stocking goods
consumer trends and churn
Big Data in Healthcare - ✔✔Epidemic/ disease outbreak prediction
Individual disease predictions
Increased access to databases on symptoms and new treatments
Real time monitoring of patients
, data brokers - ✔✔companies that collect and sell personal information about
consumers
Structured v Unstructured Data - ✔✔structured data: data that can be stored in a
table or database (our focus)
Unstructured data: does not reside in fixed locations
Up to how much faster can Google predict the flu than the CDC? - ✔✔2 weeks
What is meant by "word birth"? - ✔✔the first time a baby/or toddler says a new
word
Timeline of AI - ✔✔Early AI (1950's) --> Machine Learning (1980's) --> Deep Learning
(2010's)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - ✔✔Machines that can perform tasks that are a
characteristic of human intelligence
Earliest AI - ✔✔Automated checkers against a CPU
Types of Artificial Intelligence - ✔✔General
Narrow
Narrow AI - ✔✔The type of AI that exists today
Technologies that are able to perform specific tasks as well as (or better- faster, more
accurate, better endurance) than humans can
