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In-Class Exercise 1
By. Dr. Tony K. C. Chan

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Part A
• Question 1: EDW and Data Mart (Page 5 - 6 of Data Warehousing)
• Question 2: Management Science (Page 22 of DSS & BI)
• DSS is proposed to assist solving semistructured or unstructured problems.
• Question 3: Simon's 4 phases of decision making
• Name of the 4 phases with brief desciption
• Related to decide the portfolio of an investment, e.g.,
• collect information of stocks, bons, ...
• go through different portfolio template ...
• choice the one that gives high return ...
• purchase ...
• Question 4: Predictive analytics (Q17 of tutorial BA and Big Data)
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Part B
• Question 5(a): Star / Snowflake schema design
• Fact table: Income
• Dimension Tables: Customer, Time, Theater_Hall
• Denomialize the Customer and Recommends tables
• Denomialize the Theater and Hall tables
• Keys of the tables, and Link between Fact & Dimension
• Composite Key in the Fact table: CustID, TheaterHallID, ReserveDate
• Attribute hierarchies:
• Customer->CustCity->CustCountry->ALL
• Hall->HallType->ALL OR Hall->TheaterLocation->ALL
• Date->Month->Quarter->Year->ALL
• Calculate field in the Fact table: IncomeAmt = IncomePerNight * NoOfNights
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 Part B
• Question 5(b): Create ERD (Entity Relation Diagram

Product_ID Component_ID

N M
Product_Name Product Make up Component Comp_Name

Quantity Description
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Supplier Provide

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Part B
• Question 5(c) Database Normalization
• 1 NF: Partial functional dependency (procedure_no -> procedure_name and
procedure_no is a subset of the primary key of PET_VISIT)
• Suggested schema
• PET_VISIT (pet_id, visit_date, procedure_no)
• PROCEDURE(procedure_no, procedure_name)
• Other tables

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Statistics
• Number of students: 74
• Mean (average): 14.3
• Standard deviation: 4.4
• Median: 14.5
• Max: 25.5
• Min: 5.5

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