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Unit 7: Business Analytics and Data Visualization

5. Describe the working of online analytical processing. Notes
6. Discuss the different types of online analytical processing (OLAP).
7. Illustrate how OLAP helps in visualizing data as cube structures.
8. Explain the basic data types in a GIS.

9. Discuss the various components of GIS.
10. Discuss various applications of GIS.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Business analytics (BA) 2. Data visualization
3. Visualization tools 4. Online analytical processing (OLAP)

5. Relational 6. Hybrid
7. Time intelligence 8. Atomic Measurement
9. Themes 10. Hypermap
11. Multimedia 12. Data Input
13. Spatial data 14. False

15. True

7.9 Further Readings

Books Daniel Power, 2002, Decision Support Systems: Concepts and Resources for Managers,
Greenwood Publishing Group

Efraim Turban, 1995, Decision Support and Expert Systems: Management Support
Systems, Prentice Hall
Harry Katzan, 1984, Management Support Systems, Van Nostrand Reinhold
Company
K. Sarukesi, 2004, Decision Support Systems, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

Online links http://linfiniti.com/dla/AGentleIntroductionToGIS.pdf
http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~per/Dss/Dss_12.pdf
http://www.sas.com/resources/asset/8Essentials_BusinessAnalytics
_SpecialReport.pdf
http://www.westminster.edu/staff/athrock/GIS/GIS.pdf

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