Ba325 final - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Information Answer: Data converted into a meaningful and useful context Human mediation is necessary Data Answer: Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis Knowledge Answer: Information that has been synthesized and contextualized o Aggregated and filtered through human experience (tacit) o Hard to structure· Information that has been synthesized and contextualized DBMS (Database Management System) Answer: A software package de...

Information Literacy Answer: Ability to locate, evaluate, & use effectively the needed information Socio-technical Answer: Relationship between social world & technical world. Technology /has/ to work with the person using it Business Intelligence/Analytics Answer: Ability to gather & make sense of information about your business. Set of techniques/processes/technologies. -Companies COLLECT our data, & they SELL it. Competitive Intelligence Answer: As...

Define information, data, and knowledge Answer: data: specific, objective facts/observations info: data endowed with relevance and purpose knowledge: info that has been synthesized and contextualized thru human experience Recognize the terms DBMS and DMS Answer: database management system: is software for creating, maintaining, and manipulating data Explain the value of a network Answer: the value of a network is a function of the number of connected nodes (the m...