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Reveals the relationship between variables along with the nature and frequency of the relationships
Association Detection
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The data elements associated with an entity
Attribute
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Enforces business rules vital to an organization's success and often requires more insight and knowledge than relational integrity constraints
Business-Critical Integrity Constraint
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A technique used to divide information sets into mutually exclusive groups such that the members of each group are as close together as possible to one another and the different groups are as far apart as possible
Cluster Analysis
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The common term for the representation of multidimensional information
Cube
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Compiles all of the meta data about the data elements in the data model
Data Dictionary
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The smallest or basic unit of information
Data Element
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The overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of company data
Data Governance
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Occurs when the same data element has different values
Data Inconsistency
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Occurs when a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or duplicate data
Data Integrity Issue
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Contains a subset of data warehouse information
Data Mart
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The process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone
Data Mining
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Uses a variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information that predict future behavior and guide decision making
Data-Mining Tool
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Logical data structures that detail the relationships among data elements using graphics or pictures
Data Model
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Determines the accuracy and completeness of its data
Data Quality Audit
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The duplication of data, or the storage of the same data in multiple places
Data Redundancy
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A logical collection of information, gathered from many different operational databases, that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks
Data Warehouse
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Maintains information about various types of objects (inventory). events (transactions), people (employees). and places (warehouses)
Database
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Creates, reads, updates, and deletes data in a database while controlling access and security
Database Management System (DBMS)
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An interactive website kept constantly updated and relevant to the needs of its customers using a database
Data-Driven Website
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Stores information about a person, place, thing, transaction, or event
Entity
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A process that extracts information from internal and external databases, transforms it using a common set of enterprise definitions, and loads it into a data warehouse
Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL)
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Predictions based on time-series information
Forecasts
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