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, TABLE OF CONTENT ii ii
1. An Overview of Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science
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2. Descriptive Analytics I: Nature of Data, Statistical Modeling, and Visualization
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3. Descriptive Analytics II: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
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4. Predictive Analytics I: Data Mining Process, Methods, and Algorithms
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5. Predictive Analytics II: Text, Web, and Social Media Analytics
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6. Prescriptive Analytics: Optimization and Simulation
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7. Big Data Concepts and Tools
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8. Future Trends, Privacy and Managerial Considerations in Analytics
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, Chapter 1 An Overview of Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science
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1) Computerized support is only used for organizational decisions that are responses to external pressures,
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not for taking advantage of opportunities.
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2) During the early days of analytics, data was often obtained from the domain experts using manual
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processes to build mathematical or knowledge-based models.
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3) Computer applications have moved from transaction processing and monitoring activities to problem
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analysis and solution applications.
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4) Business intelligence (BI) is a specific term that describes architectures and tools only.
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5) The growth in hardware, software, and network capacities has had little impact on modern BI
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innovations.
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6) Managing data warehouses requires special methods, including parallel computing and/or
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Hadoop/Spark.
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, 7) Managing information on operations, customers, internal procedures and employee interactions is the
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domain of cognitive science.
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8) Decision support system (DSS) and management information system (MIS) have precise definitions
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agreed to by practitioners.
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9) In the 2000s, the DW-driven DSSs began to be called BI systems.
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10) Major commercial business intelligence (BI) products and services were well established in the early
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1970s.
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11) Information systems that support such transactions as ATM withdrawals, bank deposits, and cash
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register scans at the grocery store represent transaction processing, a critical branch of BI.
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12) Many business users in the 1980s referred to their mainframes as "the black hole," because all the
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information went into it, but little ever came back and ad hoc real-time querying was virtually impossible.
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