Data Flashcards

1
Q

What is the concept that visualizes data into the information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy?

A

The Data Pyramid

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2
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What are the four levels of the day at pyramid starting from bottom?

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Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom

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3
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What level on the data pyramid represents raw statements like 18:38, on, or off?

A

Data

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4
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What level on the data pyramid provides meanings like it is 6:38pm or the light is on?

A

Information

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5
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What level on the data pyramid gives context like the room I am working in is dark?

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Knowledge

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6
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What level on the data pyramid gives applied thought like it is dark. I should turn on the light.

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Wisdom

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7
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What includes raw facts or observations?

A

Data

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8
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Once data is organized, what can be inferred by asking who, what, where and how to use data?

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Information

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9
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What is dynamic combination of experience, values, information, expertise and grounded intuition that provides an environment and framework for evaluating new experiences and information?

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Knowledge

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10
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What is the key term associated with knowledge?

A

Context

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11
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What is knowing the right thing to do?

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Wisdom

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12
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What is data coded in a way that makes it easy to convert into a form usable for analysis?

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Structured Data

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13
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What term refers to data that is more complex and possibly stored in a format that is not easily decided, like texts, videos, comments?

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Unstructured data

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14
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What is the term for a large collection of data that is incapable of being processed by previous generations of analytical tools?

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Big Data

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15
Q

Big companies use what to analyze customer experience, model customers and align their product offerings to specific customer characteristics?

A

Data science

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16
Q

What is a collection of data and information used to support decision making in an organization?

A

Information Systems

17
Q

What is the term that for sensitive data like social security numbers, names and telephone numbers ?

A

Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

18
Q

Infrastructure used to manage data in an organization is referred to as what?

A

Data Architecture

19
Q

What can change often within a business that necessitates flexible architecture to allow for both data collection and analysis?

A

Business requirements

20
Q

Data can reside in what two places?

A

In house or in the cloud

21
Q

What are the three core variations of a cloud based system?

A

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)

22
Q

What cloud solution provides access in a virtualized environment with computing resources on virtualized hardware?

A

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

23
Q

What cloud solution model provides customers to a platform that supports the development and management of web applications?

A

Platform as a Service(PaaS)

24
Q

What cloud model provides licensed software to customers with subscriptions and central testing?

A

Software as a Solution (SaaS)

25
Q

What are two of the systems that companies can find data to analyze a business process?

A

Customer Relationship Management system (CRM)
Enterprise Resource Management System (ERM)

26
Q

What are the three steps for transforming informational knowledge into implementable data solutions?

A

1) capturing
2) analyzing
3) using

27
Q

What is the term for the process of ensuring the cleanliness of data?

A

Data Hygiene

28
Q

What is the term for the process of amending or removing data in a database that is incorrect, incomplete, improperly formatted, or duplicated?

A

Data Scrubbing

29
Q

What type of bad data involves two or more identical records?

A

Duplicate data

30
Q

What type of bad data includes the same records with different attributes?

A

Conflicting data

31
Q

What type of bad data has missing attributes?

A

Incomplete data

32
Q

What type of bad data has data that does not conform to standardization?

A

Invalid Data

33
Q

What type of bad data is not shared between two systems?

A

Unsynchronized Data

34
Q

What term is used for data that is precise, valid, reliable, timely and complete?

A

Quality Data

35
Q

What quality describes data that is in the context of its intended use?

A

Precision

36
Q

What term describes data that meets the requirements of the data collection process?

A

Valid

37
Q

What term describes data that is consistent regardless of where it resides or how it was collected?

A

Reliable

38
Q

What term describes data that was collected at the right time to be relevant to decision making?

A

Timely

39
Q

What term describes data that is thorough providing a full view of the relevant picture?

A

Complete