Lecture Material

Lecture Material: Principles of Data Visualization

Here are the slides. We’ll be referring to these in week 14.

Lecture Material: ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)

Here are the slides. We’ll be referring to these in week 11.

Lecture Material: Dimensional Modeling

Here are the slides. We’ll be referring to these in week 10.

Lecture Material: Data Quality

Here are the slides. We’ll be referring to these in Week 7.

MySQL Workbench: Quick Guide and Overview Presentation

To do our work with SQL statements, we’ll be using MySQL as the database and MySQL Workbench as our query tool.

Instructions for how to use MySQL in the lab (and to set it up on your own computer) is here.

A set of slides briefly explaining the relationship between Workbench and the MySQL server, and an overview of what Workbench does, is here.

A few other points:

  • We’ll be using this material in Weeks 5 and 6 (September 28 and October 5).
  • Your username as password for the MySQL server is posted to the gradebook.
  • You’ll also need a username and password for the computers in the lab (for our in-class exercises those weeks). That is also posted to the gradebook.

Lecture Material: Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom

Here are the slides we used to discuss the differences between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.

Lecture Material: Putting Information into a Database

Get the presentation here.

We’ll cover this in Week 6.

Lecture Material: Getting Information out of a Database

Get the presentation here.

We’ll cover this in Week 5.

Lecture Material: Relational Data Modeling

Get the presentation here.

We’ll cover this in Week 4.

Lecture Material: Course Introduction and Information Architecture

Get the presentation here.

We’ll cover this in Week 1.