This is the second module of Decision Support Systems (801AA, 12 ECTS), previously called Laboratory of Data Science (664AA, 6 ECTS).
Instructors:
Cristiano Landi
If you are not asking for office hours, always email both instructors and include [LDS] at the beginning of the subject line.
The following is the timetable for the whole Decision Support Systems course. The two modules span differently over the semester. The first module will take most of the lessons from September to October. The second module will take most of the lessons from November to December.
| Day of Week | Hour | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday | 9:00 - 11:00 | Fib C |
| Wednesday | 16:00 - 18:00 | Fib H-Lab |
| Thursday | 11:00 - 13:00 | Fib A1 |
| Friday | 11:00 - 13:00 | Fib C1 |
A Teams channel is used to post news, Q&A, and other stuff related to the course. The lectures will be only in presence and will NOT be live-streamed, but recordings of the lecture from this or the previous years will be made available for non-attending students.
Note: preconfigured virtual machines can be found in the Teams channel for both AMD64 (Intel/AMD) and ARM (Apple Silicon) architectures.
| Day | Topic | Slides | Data/Software | References | Video Lectures |
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| 18.09 | Introduction to the Course. BI Architectures. File data access. | Introduction BI architectures Files | - BI technology: An Overview of Business Intelligence Technology - File access: File System Interface | video | |
| 25.09 | Python Recap. + Exercises | Python Recap | supplementary code | Python reference: Free python book + exercises | video |
| 02.10 | Python File Access | Python File Access | Data for ex | ||
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There are no mid-terms. The exam of Decision Support Systems (801AA, 12 ECTS) consists of a written part and an oral part on the topics of the first module (50% of the final grade), and a lab project with discussion on the topics of the second module (50% of the final grade). See Module I: Decision Support Databases for the theory part. The project of Module II can be discussed only after passing Module I and not later than one year since then.
PROJECT
A project consists of a set of assignments corresponding to a BI process: data integration, construction of an OLAP cube, querying of the OPLAP cube, and reporting.
The project has to be performed by a team of 3 students.
Each part of the project must be documented with a brief pdf report (no more than 5 pages) describing your solution.
Project to be delivered within 27/12/2024
Project to be delivered during the exam sessions Students who did not deliver the above project by 27/12/2024 need to ask by email a new project to the teachers. The project that will be assigned will require about 2 weeks of work. After the delivery, the project will be discussed during the oral exam. For those students, the oral exams will also cover some practical parts that could not be included in the project. Please write to all teachers!
Registration to the written exam is mandatory (pay attention at the deadline for registering!): register here
Please indicate in the notes “Only Lab” for doing only the discussion of the lab project; “Only DSD” for doing only the written+oral part of the DSD module; or “DSD+Lab” for doing both.
Important: the date of the discussion of the lab project will be communicated to you. The dates at the registration website regard only the written part of the DSD module.