计算机专业英语 第十三章.ppt

Professional English in Computer Field Chapter Thirteen Management Information System 内容 正文 Data Warehouse Data Mining 阅读材料 Oracle Data Mining Steps Involved in Building a Data Warehouse 13-1 Data Warehouse 1. Definition 2. History of data warehousing 3. Components of a data warehouse 3.1 Data Sources 3.2 Data Transformation Layer 3.3 Data Warehouse Layer 3.4 Reporting Layer 3.5 Metadata Layer 13-1 Data Warehouse 3.6 Operations Layer 3.7 Optional Components 4. Advantages of using data warehouse Key Words data warehouse 数据仓库 archive v. 收集归档 normalization n. 规范化 entity-relationship model 实体联系模型，又称为ER模型 denormalize v. 反规范化 metadata n. 元数据 data mart 数据集市 Notes Data warehouses at this stage are used to generate activity or transactions that are passed back into the operational systems for use in the daily activity of the organization. 在此时期，数据仓库被用来生成动作或事务并传递回业务系统中用于企业的日常工作中。 These data warehouses were able to bring in data from a range of different data sources, such as mainframe computers, minicomputers, as well as personal computers and office automation software such as spreadsheet, and integrate this information in a single place. 这些数据仓库可以从一定范围的数据源（例如大型计算机、微型计算机以及个人计算机和办公自动化软件，如电子表格）中获取数据，并将这些信息集中在一起。 13-2 Data Mining 1. What is Data Mining? 2. The Data Mining Process Key Words drill down v. 抽取，提取 knowledge discovery 知识发现 machine learning 机器学习 scalability n. 扩展性，伸缩性 relational algebra 关系代数 tuple n. 元组 tangible adj. 实际的，有形的 Notes Data is often noisy or incomplete and unless this is understood and corrected for, it is likely that many interesting patterns will be missed and the reliability of detected patterns will be low. 数据经常有噪声或者不完整，除非被理解并加以修正，否则很多有用的模式会被遗漏，所发现的模式的可靠性也会很低。 Data mining is used to discover hidden patterns and relationships in your data in order to help you make better business decisions. 数据挖掘被用来发现数据中隐藏的模式和关系，从而帮助你做出更好的商业决策。 Reading Material 1 Oracle Data Mining 1. Overview of Oracle Data Mining’s Algo