Chapter 3: Data Components
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Decision Support Systems

Vicki L. Sauter

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What Are Data?

Figure 3.1 Evolution of user's needs and Dss capabilities

Information

Table 3.1 Characteristics of Useful Information

Databases

Figure 3.2 Census data availability

Figure 3.3 Internet-based news services

Figure 3.4 TheFormula One/Net interactive web spreadsheet

Figure 3.5 TheFormula One/Net updated screen

Figure 3.6 Formula one/Net interactive web graphics

Database Managemetn Systems

Figure 3.7 Hierarchical database structure

Figure 3.8 Network database structure

Data Warehouses

Figure 3.9 Relational structure of databases

Figure 3.10 Data warehouse

Figure 3.11 The DSSAgent opening screen

The Car Example

Table 3.2 Criteria for Evaluating Data Mining Products

Figure 3.12 Historic background information: previously owned automobiles

Figure 3.13 Historic background information: new automobiles

Figure 3.14 historic background information: targeted by category of automobile

Table 3.3 Automobile Attributes Included in Kipplinger's 1996 Buyer's Guide: The New Cars

Table 3.4 Ratings by Kipplinger's

Figure 3.15 The Edmund's web-based information service

Figure 3.16 Annual automobile cost worksheet

Figure 3.17 Virtual reality simulation of the exterior view of an automobile

Figure 3.18 Virtual reality simulation of automobile as seen from driver's seat

Table 3.5 Most Popular Cars Among Apple Employees

Figure 3.19 Database system object definition in Level 5 Object

Figure 3.20 Example of inheritance of attributes: a specific database definition in Level 5 Object

Figure 3.21 Level 5 Object code to search database and display results to screen

Figure 3.22 Level 5 Object code to search database and to save results of the search to another database

Figure 3.23 Level 5 Object code to search database and set a flag to indicate further analysis

Figure 3.24 Level 5 Object code to respond to the flag set in Figure 3.23

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