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2.  Last unit of the Business Intelligence segment  Integrative readings  Easy meter

3.  Name, major  Learning objectives  Things you like about the class  Things that can be improved  Attitude towards the Tournament

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5.  You are an BI/finance consultant at ACME Inc., a multinational company with a global presence.  It is year-end and your boss, the CFO, wants to check the differences between budgeted costs and actual costs.

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7.  Single table, on a remote RDBMS (SmallBankDB) Division = geography Category = group of items, e.g., commission, lease, utilities

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10.  … are data summarization tools.  They aggregate data according to various dimensions (e.g., time, location, department, product….)  Then they let you see your data in many new ways. Slicing and dicing.

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