Vocabulary 11 & 12

Data Trail

An electronic record of the transactions or activities of a particular person, organization, etc. Especially with reference to a person's financial transactions, cell phone and internet usage

Function Creep

the gradual widening of the use of a technology or system beyond the purpose for which it was originally intended, especially when this leads to a potential invasion of privacy.

Fusion Center

State-owned and operated centers that serve as focal points in states and major urban areas for the receipt, analysis, gathering and sharing of threat-related information between State, Local, federal and private sector partners

Government Intervention

Regulatory actions taken by the government that seek to change the decisions made by individuals, groups and organizations about social and economic matters.

National Security Agency (NSA)

A federal government intelligence agency that is part of the United States Department of Defense. The Intelligence-gathering business, to protect national communications systems integrity and to collect and process information about foreign adversaries' secret communications in support of national security and foreign policy.

Slippery Slope

A course of action that seems to lead inevitably from one action or result to another with unintended consequences.

Social Credit Score

China's social credit system is a set of databases and initiatives that monitor and assess the trustworthiness of individuals. A good rating could offer priority health care or deposit-free renting of public housing, while a negative rating could see individuals banned from flights and trains.

Surveillance

The monitoring of behavior, activities, or data for the purpose of information gathering. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as closed circuit television, or interception of electronically transmitted information like internet traffic or phones calls.

Business Analytics (BA)

includes software tools and applications used to build models and simulations to create scenarios, understand current events and predict future states. Includes data mining, predictive analytics, applied analytics and statistics. Provides support for the process of making proactive tactical decisions. Makes it possible for those companies to automate decision making in order to support real-time responses. It answers why it happened and whether it will happen again.

Business Intelligence (BI)

the process of analyzing historical and current data, to uncover actionable insights for making decisions. Collect data from internal systems and external sources, prepare it for analysis, develop and run queries, create reports, dashboards and data visualizations to decision-maker. It answers what happened. The first step for companies to take when they start to make data-driven decisions.

Data Warehouse

a type of data management system that is designed to enable and support business intelligence (BI) activities, especially analytics. Centralizes and consolidates large amounts of data from multiple sources

Dashboard

an information management tool used to track, analyze, and display key performance indicators, metrics, and data points. To monitor the overall health of your business, department, or a specific process.

Democratization of information

the process of making digital information accessible to the average non-technical user of information systems, without having to require the involvement of IT. 

Descriptive

this type of data tells what happened, hindsight. Ex.) weight, gender, ethnicity, age, zip code

Predictive

This type of data describes what will happen, insight. Ex.) blurry vision,

itch skin, foot ulcer

Prescriptive

This type of data describes how to make it happen, foresight Ex.) exercise,

diet, monitoring