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Prescriptive Analytics - Answers -✔✔ use techniques that create models indicating the
best decision to make or course of action to take
4 components of Big Data - Answers -✔✔ Structured and Unstructured data, large
quantities, cannot use traditional software and databases
Data Mining - Answers -✔✔ finding hidden patterns within Big Data
Descriptive Analytics - Answers -✔✔ the use of data to understand past and current
business performance and make informed decisions
Predictive Analytics - Answers -✔✔ the use of past data to model future outcomes
3 Steps of Davenport-Kim Three-Stage Model - Answers -✔✔ 1. framing the problem
2. solving the problem
3. communicating results
Data Management - Answers -✔✔ A process that focuses on data collection, storage,
and retrieval. Common data management functions include addition, deletion,
modification, and listing.
Continuous Data - Answers -✔✔ Data that can be any value on a range
ex: age
Interval Data - Answers -✔✔ Data that is within a range and an equal interval apart
ex: times, shoe sizes
Ratio Data - Answers -✔✔ Data that have known intervals between values and a
meaningful zero value
ex: income, inventory levels
Ratioooo = 0
Discrete Data - Answers -✔✔ Numerical data that can be counted as whole numbers
ex: cars
Nominal Data - Answers -✔✔ Data which consists of names, labels, or categories
, ex: male/female
NOMinal = NAMes
Ordinal Data - Answers -✔✔ Data that places objects into an order according to some
quality with higher order indicating more of that quality
ex: degrees
ORDinal = ORDered
Random Error - Answers -✔✔ An error that will not repeat itself and occurs less in larger
samples of data
Systematic Error - Answers -✔✔ An error that is consistently made throughout an
experiment, likely because of measurement or tool faultiness
Omission Error - Answers -✔✔ An error because something (for example, data or
survey response) is missing.
Outlier - Answers -✔✔ A value much greater or much less than the others in a data set
Measurement Bias - Answers -✔✔ Bias from a poor representation of the population or
a sample that is not random
Response Bias - Answers -✔✔ Tendency for subjects to respond with what they
assume the questioner wants to hear
Conscious Bias - Answers -✔✔ Tendency for the surveyor to be seeking or leading to a
certain response
Skewness (Bias) - Answers -✔✔ Measure of degree to which data "leans" toward one
side
Observational Studies - Answers -✔✔ Studies in which the researcher observes and
statistically analyzes when it is impractical to have control
Experimental Studies - Answers -✔✔ Studies in which the independent variables are
directly manipulated and the effects on the dependent variable are examined
Independent Variable - Answers -✔✔ The experimental factor that is manipulated by
researcher, aka the predictor
Dependent Variable - Answers -✔✔ The outcome factor; the variable that may change
in response to manipulations of the independent variable.