Exam 9: Business Intelligence Systems

The facts about data,such as its source,format,assumptions,constraints,and the like are called ________.

Which of the following activities in the business intelligence process involves delivering business intelligence to the knowledge workers who need it?

________ refers to the level of detail represented by the data.

In ________,statistical techniques identify groups of entities that have similar characteristics.

For dynamic content,the skill required to create a publishing application is low.

The curse of dimensionality states that the more attributes there are,the more difficult it is to build a model that fits the sample data,but that is more relevant as a predictor.

What are business intelligence systems?

Data granularity refers to the level of detail represented by the data.

Which of the following problems is particularly common for data that have been gathered over time?

________ reports are reports produced when something out of predefined bounds occurs.

Users in the data mart obtain data that pertain to a particular business function from the data warehouse.

The facts about data,such as its source,format,assumptions,constraints,and the like are called metadata.

A printed sales analysis is an example of a dynamic report.

Differentiate between static reports and dynamic reports.

It is economical to create,staff,and operate data warehouses and data marts.

Which of the following is true of unsupervised data mining?

With ________ data mining,data miners develop a model prior to the analysis and apply statistical techniques to data to estimate parameters of the model.

If the granularity is too coarse,the data can be separated into constituent parts.

Which of the following is true of data with granularity?

Business intelligence systems are information systems that process operational and other data to analyze past performance and to make predictions.