Vocabulary
This language allows us to speak to databases.
What is SQL (Structured Query Language)?
She is Rockhurst's first lay president, as well as its first layperson.
Who is Dr. Sandra Cassady?
Unlike weight and salary, gender can be described using this term for a type of data.
What is categorical data?
This is the name for a data storage platform that may contain multiple databases and tables, traditionally used by companies.
What is a Data Warehouse?
This takes predictive analytics a step further by determining how to make an action happen (or not happen).
What is prescriptive analytics?
This is the set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform data into meaningful and useful information.
What is business intelligence?
Rockhurst athletics is part of this conference.
What is the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC)?
Name 3 elements of a visualization that should be evaluated to determine its efficacy.
Responses may include use of color, appropriate chart type, axes, titles, labels, interpretability, etc.
This process brings multiple data sources together to store them in an organized manner.
What is Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL)?
This is the data protection law started in Europe in 2016 that changed how companies around the world store and use data.
What is GDPR?
This phenomena occurs when the mean and median are not equal.
What is skew?
Rockhurst is a Jesuit university, whose traditions were founded by this man. His inspiration came after taking a cannonball to the leg at Pamplona in 1521.
Who is St. Ignatius of Loyola?
This method of data mining attempts to draw a line best fit through data points using Ordinary Least Squares.
What is linear regression?
This benefit of HDFS means that if one cluster goes down, the files are still accessible.
What is replication/redundancy?
This is the term for grouping words and phrases into positive and negative.
What is sentiment analysis?
These are known as the 3 Vs of data that help describe how "big" it is.
What is velocity, variety, and volume?
This is the year in which Rockhurst was founded. In the same year, George V became the King, the Boy Scouts of America was founded, and Typhoid Mary began spreading the disease.
What is 1910?
This type of data is best described using a line chart.
What is time series data?
This tool was named after the creator's daughter's toy elephant.
What is Hadoop?
This describes the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning.
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This term refers to a correlation that does not demonstrate correlation, like the number of people who drowned by falling into a pool and films Nicolas Cage has appeared in.
What is spurious correlation?
Rockhurst's business programs are accredited by this prestigious accrediting body.
What is AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business)?
This piece of a linear equation helps identify the relationship between the independent and dependent variables.
What is the slope?
This process allows many machines to do the work one cannot.
What is distributed computing?
The calculation for accuracy
What is (TP+TN)/All Predictions