280 likes | 353 Views
FIM: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE. Stefano Grazioli. Doing well Extra lab 2-330 on Friday #395, Homework help Easy Meter. Critical Thinking. The processes, technologies, and people to turn data into information in order to drive profitable business action. - Wayne Eckerson, TDWI.
E N D
FIM: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Stefano Grazioli
Doing well Extra lab 2-330 on Friday #395, Homework help Easy Meter Critical Thinking
The processes, technologies, and peopleto turn data into informationin order to drive profitable business action. - Wayne Eckerson, TDWI Business Intelligence Source: B. Wixom
BI and Analytics Analytics is “the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based management to drive decisions and actions” (Davenport and Harris – Competing on Analytics) “BI refers to the general ability to organize, access and analyze information in order to learn and understand the business.” (Gartner)
Business Value from Data Strategy • Usable data • High quality data • Usefuldata (big)DataUse • Accurate • Timely • Valid • Awareness • Access • Usefulness • Security • Privacy • Meaning • Scope • Sharing Business Value Based on work byB. Wixom
No one gets up in the morning and says“I’m going to make lots of errors today” Why is Data Bad? Source: T. Redman, Data Driven, 2008
Data Quality Benchmarks • Analysts cannot find what they need 50% of the times • 10-25% of the records have inaccuracies or missing elements • Data frequently misinterpreted • Known data loss and theft • Most databases implement inconsistent definitions • 50% of the stored data is never used • 10x duplication of data Source: T. Redman, Data Driven, 2008
Find and Fix Prevent at the source Do nothing (3M) Approaches to Data Quality
Homework Business Scenario:Google’s Daily Cagr
You are an analyst ata broker firm. Daily Cagr for Google Many of our customers invest for short amounts of time on Google. They sell their shares within a few weeks…. I wonder: do they make any money out of it?
file with~800customers whobought and sold GOOG within thelast two months. Three steps (and two homework) Clean data: phones, dates Compute Daily Cagr = [(final price/initial price)1/days ]-1 Report the Average Daily Cagracross all customers. Daily Cagr for Google
From:#2-345-3-48565 To:(234)-534-8565 Cleaning Phone Numbers
UML Activity Diagram - Daily Compound Average Growth of a Security (part I) When the user presses a button labeled “start”, a file selection windows pops out. The user selects a .csv file. The file is shown starting at “A1”. The start button becomes invisible. Three more buttons appear: “Clean phone numbers”, “Format Dates”, and “Compute Daily CAGR”. Select the next column and/or date [is a date] Format asmm/dd/yyyy & clear highlight if any Highlight the cell in yellow A Next homework [Compute] [Format Dates] [Clean ph.no] [No More Dates in this column] Select the next phone no. Count its digits [Exactly 10 digits] [No more columns] Format as(xxx)-xxx-xxxx & clear highlight if any Highlight the cell in red A A [No More Ph.No]
' store the address of the current active sheet, i.e., the ‘target’ DimmyActiveS AsExcel.Worksheet = Application.ActiveSheet ' select a file DimmyFile AsString= Application.GetOpenFilename() 'get the data in a new temporary workbook Application.Workbooks.OpenText(myFile, , , Excel.XlTextParsingType.xlDelimited, , , , , True) ' store the address of the temporary workbook DimmyActiveWB As Excel.Workbook = Application.ActiveWorkbook ' copy the content from the temporary to the ‘target’ sheet myActiveS.Range("A1:J1000").Value = Application.ActiveSheet.Range("A1:J1000").Value ‘ close the temp workbook myActiveWB.Close() Reading a File into EXCEL
Dim lastRow As Integer = Cells(Rows.Count,1).End(Excel.XlDirection.xlUp).Row Finding the last non-empty row
Video available Come to the Lab Suggestions
WINIT What Is NewIn Technology?
DimmyString AsString=“This is a sample string" DimmyString2 AsString = "s" DimmyChar AsChar = "s"c Strings and Characters
DimmyString AsString = "#2344-234-33-3" Dimtemp AsString = "" ForEach x AsCharIn myString If IsNumeric(x) Then temp = temp + x EndIf Next Testing Numbers
Dim myS AsString = "This is a sample string" myS = myS.Insert(4, "xyz") myS = myS.Remove(4, 3) 'starting where, how many myString = myS.Replace(" is", " was") myS = myS.Substring(0, 9) + “ another" + myS.Substring(10, 13) + "." Inserting and Removing
Dim myS AsString = "This is a sample string" DimmyPosition AsInteger = 0 myPosition = myS.IndexOf("s") Finding
myLenght = myString.Length myNewString = myString.Trim() myNewString = myString.TrimEnd() myNewString = myString.TrimStart() myNewString = myString.PadLeft(50) myNewString = myString.PadRight(20) Trimming and Padding Total length of the result
Name, major Learning objectives Things you like about the class Things that can be improved Strengths / Attitude towards the Tournament You do the talking
Dim myDate AsDate = "11/14/2002“ Year = myDate.Year Month = myDate.Month Day = myDate.Day DOW = myDate.DayOfWeek DOY = myDate.DayOfYear ... ... Dates MyDate 2002 Year 11 Month 14 Day 45 Week .... ...
DimmyDate1 AsDate DimmyDate2 AsDate DimmyTS AsTimeSpan myDate1 = Range("A1").Value myDate2 = Range("A2").Value myTS = myDate2 - myDate1 Range("A3").Value = myTS.Days TimeSpan A TimeSpan represents the elapsed time between two dates. Date1 Date2 TIMESPAN
mySpan.Days gives you the total number of days mySpan.TotalDays gives you the total number of days, plus a fraction of day based on the hours TimeSpan