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The approach to Data Analytics that attempts to  of assign each unit in a population into a small set of classes to which the unit belongs.

What is the Classification approach?

100

ETL

What is extract, transform, and load data?

100

This attribute is required to exist in each table of a relational database and serves as the "unique identifier" for each record in a table.

What is the Primary Key?

100

The letter T represents this stage in the IMPACT cycle.

What is Track Outcomes?

100

An enjoyable place to spend three hours on a Wednesday evening.

What is vacationing in Hawaii? also accepted; What is Accounting Information Systems on-ground class at Lakeland University?

200

The approach to Data Analytics that attempts to identify similar individuals based on data known about them.

What is similarity matching?

200

ADS

What are Audit Data Standards.

200

These attributes in a relational database are neither primary nor foreign keys.

What are descriptive attributes?

200

This stage holds the third position in the IMPACT cycle.

What is Perform Test Plan?

200

By the year 2020 it is estimated that this amount of new information will be created every second.

What is 1.7 megabytes of information?

300

The approach to Data Analytics that attempts to predict the relationship between two data items.

What is link prediction?

300

SQL

What is Structured Query Language?

300

This attribute in a relational database exists in order to carry out the relationship between two tables.

What is a foreign key?

300

 This stage in the IMPACT cycle immediately precedes the Communicate Insights stage.

What is Address and Refine Results?

300

This process can reduce redundancy and improve data integrity.

What is normalization?

400

A central repository of descriptions for all of the data attributes of the dataset.

What is a data dictionary?

400

CSV

What are comma-separated values?

400

Removing headings or subtotals from data or removing leading zeroes and non-printable characters are examples of this process.

What is cleaning the data?

400

This stage immediately follows the Track Outcomes stage in the IMPACT cycle.

What is Identify the Questions?

400

This approach to data analytics attempts to estimate or predict, for each unit, the numerical value of some variable using some type of statistical model.

What is regression?

500

THREE words all beginning with the letter "V" that are often used to describe Big Data.

What are volume, velocity, and variety?

500

UML

What is Unified Modeling Language?

500

A means of storing data in one place, such as an Excel spreadsheet, as opposed to storing the data in multiple tables, such as in a relational database.

What is a flat file?

500

These individuals are credited with creating the IMPACT cycle.

Who are Isson and Harriot?

500

This approach to data analytics attempts to discover associations between individuals based upon transactions involving them.

What is co-occurrence grouping?

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