Use these questions to help you prepare for assessments or exams. Note that these questions are not specifically the ones that will be on either the assessment or exam; the goal of answering these is for you to go back into the readings and gain a deeper understanding.
- The process of data analytics includes Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive analytics. Give a short description of each. How are they different?
- What is a data analyst? How do businesses effectively use data analysts?
- What does it mean to analyze the IoT? How can businesses use this to their advantage?
- Structured Query Language is used to work with large data sets. What is it exactly, and why do businesses choose to use it?
- What are the 3 most common SQL terms, and what do they do?
- Why do we need to anonymize data? What is the relationship between PII and anonymous data?
- What do good data visualizations do? How would an audience affect how you design a data visualization?
- Understand the 4 parts of the Database Hierarchy. What are they each made up of?
- Two basic parts of not just SQL, but also many programming languages, are queries and syntax. Can you define these two?