Business Analytics Glossary

A

• acceptance criteria in Business Analytics
• Accuracy in Business Analytics
• actor in Business Analytics
• Ad-hoc Analysis in Business Analytics
• adaptive approach in Business Analytics
• Algorithm in Business Analytics
• allocation in Business Analytics
• Analytics and Spreadsheets in Business Analytics
• Analytics in Business Analytics
• Anomaly Detection in Business Analytics
• Anova in Business Analytics
• architecture in Business Analytics
• artifact in Business Analytics
• Artificial Intelligence in Business Analytics
• Artificial Neural Networks in Business Analytics
• Association Analysis in Business Analytics
• Association Rule Mining in Business Analytics
• Association Rules in Business Analytics
• assumption in Business Analytics
• Attribute in Business Analytics

B

• Bayesian Analysis in Business Analytics
• behavioural business rule in Business Analytics
• benchmarking in Business Analytics
• Big Data in Business Analytics
• body of knowledge in Business Analytics
• Boxplot in Business Analytics
• BPM in Business Analytics
• brainstorming in Business Analytics
• business analysis approach in Business Analytics
• business analysis communication plan in Business Analytics
• business analysis effort in Business Analytics
• business analysis in Business Analytics
• business analysis information in Business Analytics
• business analysis package in Business Analytics
• business analysis plan in Business Analytics
• business analyst in Business Analytics
• Business Analytics Maturity Model in Business Analytics
• business architecture in Business Analytics
• business case in Business Analytics
• business decision in Business Analytics
• business domain in Business Analytics
• business goal in Business Analytics
• business in Business Analytics
• Business Intelligence in Business Analytics
• business need in Business Analytics
• business objective in Business Analytics
• Business Performance Management in Business Analytics
• business policy in Business Analytics
• business problem in Business Analytics
• business process in Business Analytics
• business process management in Business Analytics
• Business Process Modeling in Business Analytics
• business process re-engineering in Business Analytics
• business requirement in Business Analytics
• business rule in Business Analytics

C

• capability in Business Analytics
• Cart Analysis in Business Analytics
• Categorical Variable in Business Analytics
• cause-and-effect diagram: in Business Analytics
• Cause-and-Effect Modeling in Business Analytics
• change agent in Business Analytics
• change control in Business Analytics
• change in Business Analytics
• change management in Business Analytics
• change strategy in Business Analytics
• change team in Business Analytics
• checklist in Business Analytics
• Churn Analysis in Business Analytics
• Classification in Business Analytics
• Cluster Analysis in Business Analytics
• Clustering in Business Analytics
• Cohort Analysis in Business Analytics
• Cohort Retention in Business Analytics
• collaboration in Business Analytics
• Collaborative Filtering in Business Analytics
• Columnar Database in Business Analytics
• commercial off-the-shelf in Business Analytics
• competitive analysis in Business Analytics
• component in Business Analytics
• concept model in Business Analytics
• Confidence Interval in Business Analytics
• Confidence Intervals in Business Analytics
• Confusion Matrix in Business Analytics
• constraint in Business Analytics
• context in Business Analytics
• Continuous Probability Distributions in Business Analytics
• Continuous Variable in Business Analytics
• Convolutional Neural Networks in Business Analytics
• core concept in Business Analytics
• Correlation in Business Analytics
• cost-benefit analysis in Business Analytics
• COTS in Business Analytics
• create, read, update, and delete matrix in Business Analytics
• CRM in Business Analytics
• Cross-validation in Business Analytics
• CRUD matrix in Business Analytics
• customer in Business Analytics

D

• Data Cleansing in Business Analytics
• Data Dictionary in Business Analytics
• Data Fusion in Business Analytics
• Data Governance in Business Analytics
• Data Integration in Business Analytics
• Data Management in Business Analytics
• Data Mart in Business Analytics
• Data Mining in Business Analytics
• Data Preprocessing in Business Analytics
• Data Queries in Business Analytics
• Data Science in Business Analytics
• Data Visualization in Business Analytics
• Data Warehouse in Business Analytics
• Data-Driven Modeling in Business Analytics
• decision analysis in Business Analytics
• Decision Models in Business Analytics
• Decision Support System in Business Analytics
• Decision Trees in Business Analytics
• decomposition in Business Analytics
• Deep Learning in Business Analytics
• defect in Business Analytics
• definitional business rule in Business Analytics
• deliverable in Business Analytics
• Descriptive Analytics in Business Analytics
• Descriptive Statistical Measures in Business Analytics
• design in Business Analytics
• Dimensionality Reduction in Business Analytics
• Discrete Probability Distributions in Business Analytics
• Distribution Fitting in Business Analytics
• document analysis in Business Analytics
• domain in Business Analytics
• domain subject matter expert in Business Analytics
• DSDM in Business Analytics
• dynamic systems development method in Business Analytics

E

• Elasticity in Business Analytics
• elicitation in Business Analytics
• end user in Business Analytics
• Ensemble Learning in Business Analytics
• Ensemble Models in Business Analytics
• enterprise architecture in Business Analytics
• enterprise in Business Analytics
• enterprise readiness assessment in Business Analytics
• Entity Resolution in Business Analytics
• entity-relationship diagram in Business Analytics
• estimate in Business Analytics
• evaluation in Business Analytics
• Event Analytics in Business Analytics
• event in Business Analytics
• Event Stream Processing in Business Analytics
• evolutionary prototype in Business Analytics
• Excel Formulas in Business Analytics
• Excel Functions in Business Analytics
• Excel Solver in Business Analytics
• experiment in Business Analytics
• external interface in Business Analytics

F

• facilitation in Business Analytics
• Factor Analysis in Business Analytics
• feasibility study in Business Analytics
• Feature Engineering in Business Analytics
• feature in Business Analytics
• fishbone diagram in Business Analytics
• focus group in Business Analytics
• force field analysis in Business Analytics
• Forecasting in Business Analytics
• Fraud Detection in Business Analytics
• Frequency Distributions in Business Analytics
• functional requirement in Business Analytics
• Fuzzy Logic in Business Analytics

G

• gap analysis in Business Analytics
• Gaussian Mixture Model in Business Analytics
• Genetic Algorithm in Business Analytics
• goal in Business Analytics
• governance process in Business Analytics
• Gradient Boosting in Business Analytics
• guideline in Business Analytics

H

• Heatmap in Business Analytics
• Heuristics in Business Analytics
• Hierarchical Clustering in Business Analytics
• horizontal prototype in Business Analytics
• Hypothesis Testing in Business Analytics

I

• impact analysis in Business Analytics
• implementation subject matter expert in Business Analytics
• Impurity in Business Analytics
• Imputation in Business Analytics
• In-Memory Analytics in Business Analytics
• Indexing in Business Analytics
• indicator in Business Analytics
• Inference in Business Analytics
• Information Value in Business Analytics
• initiative in Business Analytics
• input in Business Analytics
• inspection in Business Analytics
• Integer Optimization in Business Analytics
• interface in Business Analytics
• interoperability in Business Analytics
• Interpolation in Business Analytics
• Interval Estimates in Business Analytics
• interview in Business Analytics
• Ishikawa diagram in Business Analytics
• iteration in Business Analytics

K

• K-Nearest Neighbors in Business Analytics
• knowledge area in Business Analytics
• Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test in Business Analytics

L

• Latent Dirichlet Allocation in Business Analytics
• lessons learned process in Business Analytics
• life cycle in Business Analytics
• Lift in Business Analytics
• Linear Discriminant Analysis in Business Analytics
• Linear Optimization in Business Analytics
• Linear Optimization Models in Business Analytics
• Linear Regression in Business Analytics
• Logic-Driven Model in Business Analytics
• Logistic Regression in Business Analytics

M

• Machine Learning in Business Analytics
• mapping in Business Analytics
• Market Basket Analysis in Business Analytics
• Market Segmentation in Business Analytics
• matrix in Business Analytics
• Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Business Analytics
• Measures of Association in Business Analytics
• Measures of Dispersion in Business Analytics
• Measures of Location in Business Analytics
• Measures of Shape in Business Analytics
• metadata in Business Analytics
• methodology in Business Analytics
• metric in Business Analytics
• mission statement in Business Analytics
• Mixed-Integer Optimization Models in Business Analytics
• model in Business Analytics
• monitoring in Business Analytics
• Monte Carlo Simulation in Business Analytics
• Multicollinearity in Business Analytics
• Multidimensional Scaling in Business Analytics
• Multinomial Logistic Regression in Business Analytics
• Multiple Linear Regression in Business Analytics
• Multivariate Analysis in Business Analytics

N

• Naive Bayes in Business Analytics
• Natural Language Processing in Business Analytics
• need in Business Analytics
• Network Analysis in Business Analytics
• Neural Networks in Business Analytics
• non-functional requirement in Business Analytics
• Nonlinear Regression in Business Analytics
• Normalization in Business Analytics

O

• objective in Business Analytics
• observation in Business Analytics
• OLAP in Business Analytics
• One-Hot Encoding in Business Analytics
• One-Sample Hypothesis Tests in Business Analytics
• One-Sample T-Test in Business Analytics
• Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) in Business Analytics
• online analytical processing in Business Analytics
• Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) in Business Analytics
• operational support in Business Analytics
• operative rule in Business Analytics
• organization in Business Analytics
• organizational capability in Business Analytics
• organizational change management in Business Analytics
• Organizational modelling in Business Analytics
• organizational unit in Business Analytics
• Outlier Detection in Business Analytics

P

• package in Business Analytics
• Pareto Chart in Business Analytics
• Partitioning in Business Analytics
• peer review in Business Analytics
• Performance Metrics in Business Analytics
• Pivot Table in Business Analytics
• PivotTables and Pivot Charts in Business Analytics
• plan in Business Analytics
• policy in Business Analytics
• Prediction Intervals in Business Analytics
• Predictive Analytics in Business Analytics
• predictive approach in Business Analytics
• Predictive Modeling in Business Analytics
• Prescriptive Analytics in Business Analytics
• Principal Component Analysis in Business Analytics
• prioritization in Business Analytics
• Probability Distribution in Business Analytics
• Probability Distributions in Business Analytics
• Problem Solving and Decision Making in Business Analytics
• process in Business Analytics
• Process Mining in Business Analytics
• process model in Business Analytics
• product backlog in Business Analytics
• product in Business Analytics
• product scope in Business Analytics
• product vision statement in Business Analytics
• Profitability Analysis in Business Analytics
• project in Business Analytics
• project manager in Business Analytics
• project scope in Business Analytics
• proof of concept in Business Analytics
• prototype in Business Analytics

Q

• Quadratic Optimization in Business Analytics
• Qualitative and Judgmental Forecasting in Business Analytics
• Qualitative Data in Business Analytics
• quality assurance in Business Analytics
• quality attributes in Business Analytics
• quality in Business Analytics
• Quantitative Data in Business Analytics
• questionnaire in Business Analytics

R

• R Programming Language in Business Analytics
• RACI matrix in Business Analytics
• Random Forests in Business Analytics
• Random Sampling in Business Analytics
• Randomized Controlled Trials in Business Analytics
• Recommender Systems in Business Analytics
• Regression Analysis in Business Analytics
• regulator in Business Analytics
• Reinforcement Learning in Business Analytics
• repository in Business Analytics
• request for information in Business Analytics
• request for proposal in Business Analytics
• request for quote in Business Analytics
• request for tender in Business Analytics
• requirement in Business Analytics
• requirements allocation in Business Analytics
• requirements architecture in Business Analytics
• requirements artifact in Business Analytics
• requirements attribute in Business Analytics
• requirements defect in Business Analytics
• requirements document in Business Analytics
• requirements in Business Analytics
• requirements management in Business Analytics
• requirements management plan in Business Analytics
• requirements management tool in Business Analytics
• requirements model in Business Analytics
• requirements traceability in Business Analytics
• requirements validation in Business Analytics
• requirements verification in Business Analytics
• requirements workshop in Business Analytics
• Residual Analysis in Business Analytics
• residual risk in Business Analytics
• responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed matrix in Business Analytics
• retrospective in Business Analytics
• return on investment in Business Analytics
• RFI in Business Analytics
• RFP in Business Analytics
• RFQ in Business Analytics
• RFT in Business Analytics
• Ridge Regression in Business Analytics
• Risk Analysis in Business Analytics
• risk in Business Analytics
• root cause analysis in Business Analytics
• root cause in Business Analytics

S

• Sampling Distributions in Business Analytics
• Sampling in Business Analytics
• Sampling Methods in Business Analytics
• Scatter Plot in Business Analytics
• scope in Business Analytics
• scope model in Business Analytics
• Seasonal Decomposition in Business Analytics
• Seasonality in Business Analytics
• secondary actor in Business Analytics
• Semi-structured Data in Business Analytics
• Sensitivity Analysis in Business Analytics
• Sentiment Analysis in Business Analytics
• sequence diagram in Business Analytics
• service in Business Analytics
• Similarity Analysis in Business Analytics
• Simple Linear Regression in Business Analytics
• Simulation and Risk Analysis in Business Analytics
• Singular Value Decomposition in Business Analytics
• SIPOC in Business Analytics
• SME in Business Analytics
• Social Network Analysis in Business Analytics
• solution component in Business Analytics
• solution in Business Analytics
• solution life cycle in Business Analytics
• solution option: in Business Analytics
• solution requirement in Business Analytics
• solution scope in Business Analytics
• SOW in Business Analytics
• sponsor in Business Analytics
• Spreadsheet Modeling in Business Analytics
• stakeholder analysis in Business Analytics
• stakeholder in Business Analytics
• stakeholder list in Business Analytics
• stakeholder proxy in Business Analytics
• stakeholder requirement in Business Analytics
• state diagram in Business Analytics
• stated requirement in Business Analytics
• statement of work in Business Analytics
• Statistical Forecasting Models in Business Analytics
• Statistical Inference in Business Analytics
• Statistical Notation in Business Analytics
• Statistical Process Control in Business Analytics
• Statistical Sampling in Business Analytics
• Stepwise Regression in Business Analytics
• Stochastic Programming in Business Analytics
• strategy in Business Analytics
• strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis in Business Analytics
• structural rule in Business Analytics
• subject matter expert in Business Analytics
• Summarizing Data in Business Analytics
• Supervised Learning in Business Analytics
• supplier in Business Analytics
• suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers in Business Analytics
• Support Vector Machine in Business Analytics
• survey in Business Analytics
• Survival Analysis in Business Analytics
• swimlane in Business Analytics
• SWOT analysis in Business Analytics
• system in Business Analytics

T

• T-Distribution in Business Analytics
• Tableau in Business Analytics
• task in Business Analytics
• technique in Business Analytics
• temporal event in Business Analytics
• tester in Business Analytics
• Text Analytics in Business Analytics
• Text Mining in Business Analytics
• throw-away prototype in Business Analytics
• Time Series Analysis in Business Analytics
• Time Series Forecasting Models in Business Analytics
• time-box in Business Analytics
• Topic Modeling in Business Analytics
• traceability in Business Analytics
• transition in Business Analytics
• Two-Sample Hypothesis Tests in Business Analytics

U

• UAT in Business Analytics
• UML® in Business Analytics
• unified modelling language™ in Business Analytics
• Unsupervised Learning in Business Analytics
• use case diagram in Business Analytics
• use case in Business Analytics
• user acceptance test in Business Analytics
• user in Business Analytics
• user requirement in Business Analytics
• user story in Business Analytics

V

• validated in Business Analytics
• validation in Business Analytics
• value in Business Analytics
• value stream in Business Analytics
• Variable Selection in Business Analytics
• Variance in Business Analytics
• Variance Inflation Factor in Business Analytics
• verification in Business Analytics
• verified requirement in Business Analytics
• vertical prototype in Business Analytics
• viewpoint in Business Analytics
• Visualization in Business Analytics
• VSM in Business Analytics

W

• walkthrough in Business Analytics
• WBS in Business Analytics
• Web Analytics in Business Analytics
• work breakdown structure in Business Analytics
• work product in Business Analytics
• workshop in Business Analytics

X

• XGBoost in Business Analytics