| General data | |
| Course Title | Data warehousing |
| ECTS credits | 4 |
| Course Code | |
| Type of Course | Compulsory |
| Year and Semester of Study | First year / Summer semester |
| Course Website | - |
| Department | Department of Informatics |
| Course Coordinator | Professor Katarina Ćurko, PhD |
| Instructors | Professor Katarina Ćurko, PhD, Professor Mladen Varga,PhD |
| Assistants | - |
| Type of Degree Program | Graduate Study Programme |
| Major | - |
| Hours per Semester | 20 |
| Language of Instruction | English |
| Class Schedule | Schedule |
| Course Contents: | |
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1. Introduction to data warehousing. 2. Internal and external sources of data. 3. Data structure in data warehouse. 4. On line analytical processing (OLAP). 5. Data warehouse development. 6. Data warehouse applications. |
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| Description of general and specific competences (knowledge and skills) to be developed by this course: | |
| Students are introduced to the purpose, usage and structure of the data warehouse, analytical processing and the processes of the data warehouse development. Students gain specific knowledge on OLAP tools and on analytical applications. | |
| Teaching methods: | |
| Lectures, seminars, exercises, group project development and project presentations. | |
| Additional requirements for students: | |
| Active in-class participation. Keeping up-to-date with the current literature. Internet research. Visiting the companies for project development purposes. | |
| Assessment/examination method: | |
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Student assessment will be conducted throughout the teaching process (lectures, seminars, individual work on particular problem) and written exam. |
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| Required reading: | |
| Inmon, W. (2003). Building the Data Warehouse, 3rd ed., Wiley. | |
| Recommended reading: | |
| Kimball R., Mertz R. (2000). The Data Webhouse Toolkit; Building the Web-Enabled Data Warehouse, Wiley. | |
| Course and teaching quality assurance method (method of monitoring the quality of the course and its teaching): | |
| Course evaluation will be conducted through an anonymous student assessment questionnaire at the end of the teaching cycle. | |
| Course Prerequisites | |
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| Additional Information | |
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