Deck 19: Data Mining: An Introduction to Getting the Most Out of Your Big Data

Question 1

Data mining is another term for ____________.

A)analytics
B)surveying
C)investigation
D)information

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Looking for patterns in a large data sets is also referred to as _______.

A)data mining
B)data uncovering
C)data cleaning
D)data questing

Answer 2

A

Question 3

____________ can help look for patterns among data.

A)Surveying
B)Data mining
C)Investigation
D)Information

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The data set of baby names ______.

A)does not change over time
B)does change over time
C)stays the same
D)changes constantly

Question 5

Which program can easily read and convert a .csv file into a .sav file, according to Salkind?

A)Excel
B)Adobe
C)SPSS
D)Internet Explorer

Question 6

SPSS offers an advanced set of tools for data and text mining named_____________.

A)package
B)program
C)modeler
D)system

Question 7

There are many "counting" commands with SPSS that are very useful for ________ the nature of data in a large data set.

A)reducing
B)adding
C)aggregating
D)subtracting

Question 8

If you created cross-tabulation tables, your tables would summarize _______ data.

A)reliable
B)ratio
C)categorical
D)ordinal

Question 9

What is the SPSS's programming language?

A)SPSS instruction
B)SPSS syntax
C)SPSS command
D)SPSS language

Question 10

A pivot table allows you to visualize and manipulate rows and columns, as well as the _______ of cells.

A)relevance
B)reliability values
C)validity figures
D)contents

Question 11

_____________ is a very large collection of either cases or variables, but usually both.

A)Data set
B)Data mining
C)Big data
D)Small data

Question 12

What is the meaning of "quants?"

A)qualitative
B)quantitative
C)quality
D)quantity

Question 13

The variables in the data set of baby names do not include the following________.

A)year of birth
B)first name
C)county of birth
D)household income

Question 14

The technology allows for the collection of every single piece of data that is available, if ___________ can be addressed.

A)relationship
B)information
C)data
D)privacy

Question 15

Technological advances allow for more _____________ among institutions and people and machines.

A)relationships
B)interconnectedness
C)independence
D)dependence

Question 16

Not to anyone's surprise, there is an entire _________ devoted to data mining.

A)organization
B)society
C)profession
D)industry

Question 17

A database from New York state contains more than _________ baby names.

A)52,000
B)520,000
C)5,200,000
D)5,200

Question 18

All the following have lots of data except ________.

A)health care records
B)social media interactions
C)detailed analysis of sporting events
D)individual journal notes

Question 19

These days, information is measured in _______, or about 1 quintillion bytes.

A)megabytes
B)exabytes
C)kilobytes
D)gigabytes

Question 20

According to Salkind, how many data sets are there in the Data.gov for the public to view?

A)more than 100,000
B)more than 500,000
C)more than 10,000
D)more than 50,000

Question 21

Which is a special tool that allows you to easily visualize and manipulate rows and columns as well as the contents of cells?

A)pivot tables
B)Excel tables
C)pivot figures
D)Excel figures

Question 22

What is the function of SPSS syntax?

A)language
B)programming language
C)codes
D)signs

Question 23

Data mining is an effective tool in looking for patterns in ________.

A)the world
B)people
C)a large data set
D)the relationship

Question 24

Today there is an entire industry that has been devoted to data mining, and these companies tend to operate according to ______.

A)standard process
B)cross-industry
C)CRISP-DM
D)information

Question 25

Analytics is another term for ____________.

A)data mining
B)surveying
C)investigation
D)information

Question 26

What do we call the command instruction to run analysis in SPSS program?

A)SPSS instruction
B)SPSS syntax
C)SPSS command
D)SPSS language

Question 27

Pivot tables can be constructed based on ______output.

A)SPSS
B)Excel
C)Pivot figures
D)Excel figures

Question 28

How much information is out there now?

A)1,000 exabytes
B)10 exabytes
C)100 exabytes
D)1 million exabytes

Question 29

A pivot table can be created from almost any __________ output.

A)Google
B)SPSS
C)pivot
D)Microsoft

Question 30

Which tool is an effective one in counting with frequencies?

A)correlation
B)compare means
C)cross-tabulation
D)regression

Question 31

Crosstabs summarize _________ data to create a table with row and column totals.

A)interval
B)ratio
C)categorical
D)real

Question 32

A pivot table allows you to __________ and manipulate rows and columns, as well as the contents of cells.

A)reveal
B)present
C)create
D)visualize

Question 33

People tend to use data mining techniques to ______.

A)create a pivot table
B)compare means
C)test hypothesis
D)test correlation

Question 34

As a general rule in creating pivot tables, we need be as granular as possible.The meaning of granular refers to _________.

A)comprehensive
B)detailed
C)clear
D)interactive

Question 35

What type of data are used in this cross-tabulation tables?

A)reliable
B)ratio
C)categorical
D)ordinal

Question 36

SPSS modeler offers high level set of tools for ______.

A)data
B)text
C)data mining
D)data analysis

Question 37

In order to create something on pivot tables, we need some type of _______ on which to operate.

A)input
B)output
C)information
D)data

Question 38

Crosstabs create a table by summarizing this type of data.

A)interval
B)ratio
C)categorical
D)real

Question 39

Which tool allows you to cross-tabulate more than one variable?

A)correlation
B)compare means
C)cross-tabs
D)regression

Question 40

SPSS syntax is an effective way to run ______ analysis.

A)data
B)large data
C)big data
D)information

Question 41

SPSS syntax is programming language.

Question 42

What is SPSS modeler?

Question 43

What is pivot table, and how it is it used?

Question 44

What is big data?

Question 45

What is data mining?

Question 46

What is an example of a research situation in which you would use data-mining techniques?

Question 47

In order to create something on pivot tables, we need some type of input on which to operate.

Question 48

As a general rule, we need be as granular as possible in generating pivot tables.

Question 49

A pivot table can be created from almost any Google outcomes.

Question 50

A pivot table is a special way to visualize and manipulate rows and columns as well as the contents of cells.