Question

5.7 AP-Style MC Practice edhessive

In Fantasy Football, participants compete against one another by choosing certain players from different NFL teams that they think will do the best on any particular week. Top Fantasy Football players spend hours every day looking at huge databases of statistics related to the players and the teams often using spreadsheets and software tools to gain new insights and choose the best players. This process could be considered an example of which of the following?
(DATA MINING)

Students are using data collected from a non-profit organization to try to convince the school board that their school should be in session year-round with several week-long breaks as opposed to the usual 9 months on and 3 months off. Information that was collected by this organization was as follows.

The location of the school (city and country)
The number of students at the school
Whether it was year-round or had the normal 3-month summer break
Scores on standardized tests (AP, SAT, ACT, etc)
The student handbook of rules and regulations
Results from a survey from teachers and students about happiness level and motivation level
They decided to make an infographic in order to try to easily display the data they had analyzed. Which of the following would be the best information to put on their infographic to try to convince the school board to change the schedule?

Select two answers.
(Association rules showing links between motivation and happiness levels and the type of schooling students were receiving.)

(A regression analysis of standardized tests scores comparing the two different types of schooling.)

Which of the following terms describes the conversion of data, formatted for human use, to a format that can be more easily used by automated computer processes?

(Screen Scraping

Answer 1

1. Data Mining

2. A regression analysis of standardized tests scores comparing the two different types of schooling. || Association rules showing links between motivation and happiness levels and the type of schooling students were receiving.

3. Screen Scraping

Step-by-step explanation:

1. The data analyze big data sets to gain insight, which a person can't do, so it is data mining.

2. A regression analysis shows the mathematical relationship between two variables. Association rule mining finds features of data points which determine the results of other features.

3. Screen scraping generally refers to process recordings.