1. Welcome to
RESEARCH QUESTION
AND PROBLEM
IDENTIFICATION
Claryfingthe Research Question
through Data and Exploration
Dr. Myrza Rahmanita, SE, M.Sc
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5. The two types and three
levels of management
decision-related
secondary sources.
6. The five types of external information and the factors
for evaluating the value of a source and its content.
7. The process of using exploratory
research to understand the
management dilemma and work
through the stages of analysis
necessary to formulate the research
question (and, ultimately,
investigative questions and
measurement questions)
8. What is involved in internal
data mining and how
internal data-mining
techniques differ from
literature searches.
22. Information Sources
Evolutionary Step Investigative Question Enabling Technologies Characteristics
Data collection (1960s) “What was my average
total revenue over the last
five years?”
Computers, tapes, disks Retrospective, static data
delivery
Data access (1980s) “What were unit sales in
California last
December?”
Relational databases
(RDBMS), structured
query language (SQL),
ODBC
Retrospective, dynamic
data delivery at record
level
Data navigation (1990s) “What were unit sales in
California last December?
Drill down to
Sacramento.”
Online analytic
processing (OLAP),
multidimensional
databases, data
warehouses
Retrospective, dynamic
data delivery at multiple
levels
Data mining (2000) “What’s likely to happen
to Sacramento unit sales
next month? Why?”
Advanced algorithms,
multiprocessor
computers, massive
databases
Prospective, proactive
information delivery
The Evolution of Data Mining