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Basics of Business Analytics

This document discusses the basics of business analytics including key concepts like data mining, different types of data, characteristics of data for decision making, and creating reports using Power BI. It provides questions and tasks related to defining big data characteristics and data mining processes, building Power BI reports with various visualizations, and comparing features of business intelligence tools like Tableau and Power BI. The questions cover topics such as advantages and disadvantages of tools, using R code to generate outputs, and reasons for using or not using R.

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Basics of Business Analytics

This document discusses the basics of business analytics including key concepts like data mining, different types of data, characteristics of data for decision making, and creating reports using Power BI. It provides questions and tasks related to defining big data characteristics and data mining processes, building Power BI reports with various visualizations, and comparing features of business intelligence tools like Tableau and Power BI. The questions cover topics such as advantages and disadvantages of tools, using R code to generate outputs, and reasons for using or not using R.

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Basics of Business Analytics

Q.1. What are the different characteristics of big data ? Explain with suitable examples.
What is Data Mining ? What are the tasks performed in Data Mining ? Give examples, if required.

Q.2. Create a 4 page report under Power BI Desktop & take screen-shots of each page
Page 1 : Tabular Visualization, consisting of City, COGS, Gross Sales, Units & Profit in a specific
Order. Justify your order. Add a “Date Slicer” having “Between” option. Link it with all other pages.
Formatting should be done in such a way that it is legible & good colour combination should be used.
Page 2 : Visualization consisting Product-wise, Segment-wise, Discount. Justify the visual used.
Formatting should be done in such a way that it is legible & good colour combination should be used.
Page 3 : Visualization should be w.r.t. City-wise Profit. Justify the visual used.
Formatting should be done in such a way that it is legible & good colour combination should be used.
Page 4 : An apt Visual to show Year-wise, Segment-wise, Product-wise Average of Units Sold.
Formatting should be done in such a way that it is legible & good colour combination should be used.

Q.3. What are the different kinds / types of data ? Explain with suitable examples.

Q.4. What are the characteristics of data for good decision making ? Give example for every characteristic.

Q.5. Create a 3 page BI report under Power BI Desktop & pin it to the Dashboard ;
You may create your own set of visualizations that may contain Gross Sales, COGS, Units, Profits, City,
Segment, Products, etc. in a specific Order. Justify your order & selection of the visualization. Add a “Slicer” to
connect “Date” within all other pages using appropriate technique. You should use a “Card” visual for a
minimum of three unique items, a matrix visual, a tree map visual, a stacked bar chart and a clustered column
chart. This is the minimum-most requirement. Formatting should be done in such a way that it is legible & good
colour combination should be used. Finally, you should be able to publish the report online. (Please take
necessary screen-shots wherever required)
Q.6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using Tableau Software ?

Q.7. Use below mentioned codes to populate a desired output in “R-Console”, click snapshots of your work.
Objects Read.csv
Naming Assignment Operator
Functions Vector Output
History Library
Workspace Matrix Assignment

Q.8. Study on Business Intelligence Tools for Enterprise Dashboard Development (Research Paper)

Q.9. Which 5 visualizations were different in Tableau v/s Power BI ?

Q.10. Give 5 reasons why should we use R or why not R ?

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