DATA WAREHOUSE CONCEPTS AND DESIGN

CSE5DWD

2020

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

This subject introduces students to evolution of data warehouse technology, data warehouse terms and concepts, data warehouse design, data sourcing, organisational issues involved with designing and implementing a data warehouse. Especially, the multidimensional modelling with various data warehouse design schemas such as star schema and snowflake schema are the foci of the subject. Furthermore, related important technologies of Extract-Transformation-Load (ETL) system including 34 subsystems are discussed and studied. The different Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) architectures and approaches are analysed, compared and evaluated in the subject. The research issues on the performance of data warehouse and OLAP techniques are discussed and investigated. Several real world case studies are used to explain and illustrate various aspects of this subject.

School: Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Jinli Cao

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: BUS5BID or CSE2DBF or CSE4DBF or admitted into Master of Business Information Management and Systems

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: CSE4DWD

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Learning resources

The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Recommended

Author: Kimball, R, et al

Year: 2008

Edition/Volume: N/A

Publisher: WILEY

ISBN: N/A

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The Data Warehouse Toolkit

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Prescribed

Author: Kimball, R and Ross, M

Year: 2013

Edition/Volume: N/A

Publisher: WILEY

ISBN: N/A

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Career Ready

Career-focused: No

Work-based learning: No

Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A

Entire subject or partial subject: N/A

Total hours/days required: N/A

Location of WBL activity (region): N/A

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Comprehensively design a suitable data warehouse solution using various dimensional modelling techniques for a given problem
02. Critically appraise and compare different data warehouse modelling approaches for real world industry projects
03. Extract, transform and load source data for a data warehouse.
04. Critique Online Analytical Processing performance on different data warehouse architectures
05. Evaluate data warehouse design to improve the user's satisfaction level

Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Semester 1, Blended

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Jinli Cao

Class requirements

Laboratory ClassWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.00 hours laboratory class per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.

LectureWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.00 hour lecture per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.

Unscheduled Online ClassWeek: 10 - 22
One 3.00 hours unscheduled online class per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via online.

Assessments

Assessment elementCommentsCategoryContributionHurdle%ILO*

One assignment - data warehouse design using dimensional modelling techniques (equiv to 1800 words)

N/AN/AN/ANo30SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO5

One 2-hour examinationHurdle requirement: To pass the subject, a pass in the examination is mandatory.This is to meet basic knowledge requirement for the subject.

N/AN/AN/AYes50SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO4

Ten weekly online quizzes (each quiz lasts for 10 minutes, 1700 words equivalent total)

N/AN/AN/ANo20SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO4, SILO5