Bi-kipedia Data Dictionary A repository that keeps detailed definitions regarding the data warehouse logical and physical data models. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Level Levels are an implementation of the hierarchies that represent the level of detail viewed in a dimension. As an example, for a time dimension hierarchy, we have levels for year, quarter, and month. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Text mining (text analytics) Text mining is the analysis of data contained in natural language text. Text mining works by transposing words and phrases in unstructured data into numerical values which can then be linked with structured data in a database and analyzed with traditional data mining techniques. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Time series chart A time series chart, also called a times series graph, is an illustration of data points at successive time intervals. The terms fever chart and time series chart are often used interchangeably. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Spreadmart A spreadmart (spreadsheet data mart) is a situation in which a company's employees have inconsistent views of corporate data because each department relies on the data from their own spreadsheets. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Infographics An infographic (information graphic) is a representation of information in a graphic format designed to make the data easily understandable at a glance. People use infographics to quickly communicate a message, to simplify the presentation of large amounts of data, to see data patterns and relationships, and to monitor changes in variables over time. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Data Scientist A data scientist is a job title for an employee or business intelligence (BI) consultant who excels at analyzing data, particularly large amounts of data, to help a business gain a competitive edge. To do so, the employee is using statistical & data mining techniques. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Data Sampling Data sampling is a statistical analysis technique used to select, manipulate and analyze a representative subset of data points in order to identify patterns and trends in the data set being examined as a whole. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Data Mashup A data mashup is the integration of heterogeneous digital data from multiple sources for business purposes. Sunday, 22 March 2015
Bi-kipedia Data Latency Data latency, in a data warehouse context, is the time between the creation of data in a source system and the exact time at which the same data is available for end users on the business intelligence platform. Sunday, 22 March 2015