Business Analytics
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Course Introduction
Business Analytics is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the use of data, statistical analysis, and modeling techniques to inform business decision-making and optimize organizational performance. The course introduces fundamental concepts such as data collection and cleaning, exploratory data analysis, predictive modeling, and data visualization. Students learn how to apply quantitative methods and analytical tools including regression, forecasting, and optimization to real-world business problems across different industries. By emphasizing evidence-based strategies, the course equips students with the skills to interpret data-driven insights, identify business opportunities, and support strategic initiatives in competitive markets.
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Business Intelligence 2nd Edition by Efraim Turban Ramesh Sharda
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Chapter 1: Business Intelligence
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Q1) An approach to real-time, on-demand BI, commonly called ________, uses Web services to discover key business events.
A) business activity management (BAM)
B) business performance management (BPM)
C) business best practices
D) operational control
Answer: A
Q2) The process of business intelligence is based on the ________ of data to information, then to decisions, and finally to actions.
Answer: transformation
Q3) First and foremost, the fundamental reasons for investing in BI must be ________ with the company's business strategy.
Answer: aligned
Q4) BI system has four major components: data warehouse, business analytics, business performance management; and a user interface
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Data Warehousing
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Q1) Which of the following is needed to determine how data are to be retrieved from a data warehouse, and will assist in the physical definition of the warehouse by helping to define which data require indexing?
A) Indexing modeling
B) Retrieval modeling
C) Access modeling
D) Tactic modeling
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following are created when operational data need to be analyzed multidimensionally?
A) Oper marts
B) Customer information file
C) Dependent data marts
D) Independent data marts
Answer: A
Q3) ________ is the person responsible for the administration and management of a data warehouse.
Answer: Data warehouse administrator (DWA)
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Chapter 3: Business Performance Management
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Q1) A ________ delineates the relationships among the key organizational objectives for all BSC perspectives.
Answer: strategy map
Q2) Six Sigma and Lean Production both deal with ________. Answer: quality
Q3) The primary challenge of dashboard design is to display all the required information to be displayed clearly and without distraction on a single screen in a manner that can be assimilated quickly.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) A data mart forms the base of a closed-loop marketing system that enables Harrah's to define the objectives of its marketing campaigns, to execute and monitor those campaigns, and to learn what types of campaigns provide the highest return for particular types of customers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Data Mining for Business Intelligence
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Q1) Data types such as date/time, unstructured text, image, and audio need to be converted into some form of categorical or numeric representation before they can be processed by data mining algorithms.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ tells the nature of future occurrences of certain events based on what has happened in the past, such as predicting the winner of the Super Bowl or forecasting the absolute temperature of a particular day.
Q3) The ________ algorithm is the most commonly used algorithm to discover association rules.
Q4) At the highest level of abstraction, data can be classified as ________ and ________.
A) alpha; numeric
B) categorical; numerical
C) nominal; ratio
D) interval; ration
Q5) Two types of categorical data are nominal data and ordinal data.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Text and Web Mining
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Q1) The main categories of knowledge extraction methods are recall, search, and signaling.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ________ applications focus on "who and how" questions by gathering and reporting direct feedback from site visitors, by benchmarking against other sites and offline channels, and by supporting predictive modeling of future visitor behavior.
Q3) Using ________ as a rich source of knowledge and a strategic weapon, Kodak not only survives but excels in its market segment defined by innovation and constant change.
A) visualization
B) deception detection
C) patent analysis
D) semantic cues
Q4) What are three of the challenges for effective and efficient knowledge discovery posed by the Web?
Q5) One of the main approaches to text classification is ________ in which an expert's knowledge is encoded into the system either declaratively or in the form of procedural classification rules.
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Chapter 6: Business Intelligence Implementation: Integration and Emerging Trends
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Q1) List four major disadvantages of using Second Life for decision support.
Q2) A primary reason why Facebook has expanded so rapidly is the ________, which refers to the principle that more users means more value.
A) network effect
B) mobile effect
C) mobile media
D) connection effect
Q3) The intention of ________ is to achieve a feeling of telepresence and participation from a distance.
A) active environments
B) Wikia
C) social networks
D) virtual worlds
Q4) Which is not a major advantage of using Second Life for decision support?
A) easy access and low cost
B) pranksters and spam are filtered out
C) experienced and dedicated designer/builders
D) encourages active participation and experiential learning
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Q5) RFID tag data, in its purest form, is a series of ________.
Q6) What is the main function of middleware?
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