A process including acquiring, organizing, transforming, and modeling data to support decision‑making.
Data Explorer
A tool that displays records from a database stored in FastDB. Data Explorer provides a summary view for a table and a detail view for records, tables, selections, and segments.
A location storing data having a specific type. A data field typically contains data from a database or other data source. A data field appears as a column when viewing a table in Data Explorer. For example, the BIRT Data Analytics Demo database includes the data field types listed in Table G‑1.
Table G‑1 Data field types
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Field type
Description
Calculated
Displays a value result from an expression
Date
Contains numbers that represent day, month, and year
Date and time
Contains numbers that represent day, month, year, and time of day
Full numeric
Contains whole, or integer numbers, such as 1 or 1000
Real numeric
Contains real, or partial numbers such as 1.05 or 0.003
A tool that supports viewing and working with databases, tables, and records stored in FastDB. Data Tree includes Discrete Values, My Data, and My Folders viewers.
A data type defines the limits of a data field in a BIRT Analytics database. For example, the BIRT Data Analytics demo database includes the data types listed in Table G‑2.
Table G‑2 Data types in BIRT Analytics Loader
Data type
Description
Date
Contains numbers that represent day, month, and year. The default format is mm_dd_yyyy.
Datetime
Date and time data from January 1, 1753, through December 31, 9999, providing accuracy to three-hundredths of a second, or 3.33 milliseconds. The default format is yyyy_mm_dd_hh_MM_ss.
Integer
Integer data from -2^31 (-2,147,483,648) through 2^31‑1 (2,147,483,647).
Longint
Integer data from -2^63 (-9,223,372,036,854,775,808) through 2^63-1 (9,223,372,036,854,775,807).
Real
Floating precision number data with the following valid values: -3.40E+38 through -1.18E‑38, 0 and 1.18E‑38 through 3.40E+38.
String
A sequence of ASCII characters.
Time
Contains a value representing time of day. The default format is hh_MM_ss.
Unicode
A sequence of characters based on consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text as expressed in global writing systems.
1 An integrated collection of logically related records that provides data for information application platforms, such as BIRT. The database model most commonly used is the relational model. Other typical models are entity‑relationship, hierarchical, network, object, and object-relational.
2 An integrated set of logically related records stored in FastDB.
A predictive analytics technique that predicts the value of a target variable, based on values of multiple input variables. For example, use a decision tree to predict a survival rate, based on characteristics of the population that may survive.
A predictive analytics tool that uses the decision tree technique to predict an outcome, based on values of multiple input variables. For example, use Decision Tree to predict the product a customer will purchase, based on customer, purchase, gender, occupation, and income data.
