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Data Warehouse and Data Mining Unit 1

This document contains 6 questions about data warehousing and data mining concepts: 1. It asks how a data warehouse differs from and is similar to a database. 2. It provides an example data warehouse schema and asks about modeling it using different schema classes, listing total fees by doctor for 2010, and implementing roll-up and drill-down operations. 3. It asks about the similarities and differences between star and snowflake schemas and which may be more useful, including reasons. 4. It asks about ROLAP, MOLAP, and HOLAP implementation techniques, how each implements aggregation, roll-up, and drill-down functions. 5. It asks to briefly

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Data Warehouse and Data Mining Unit 1

This document contains 6 questions about data warehousing and data mining concepts: 1. It asks how a data warehouse differs from and is similar to a database. 2. It provides an example data warehouse schema and asks about modeling it using different schema classes, listing total fees by doctor for 2010, and implementing roll-up and drill-down operations. 3. It asks about the similarities and differences between star and snowflake schemas and which may be more useful, including reasons. 4. It asks about ROLAP, MOLAP, and HOLAP implementation techniques, how each implements aggregation, roll-up, and drill-down functions. 5. It asks to briefly

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Data Warehouse and Data Mining

ASSIGNMENT 1

Q1. How is data ware house different from a database? Also Identify the
similarity.

Q2. Suppose that a data warehouse consists of the three dimensions time,
doctor, and patient, and the two measures count and charge, where charge
is the fee that a doctor charges a patient for a visit.
a. Enumerate three classes of schemas that are popularly used for
modelling data warehouses.
b. Draw a schema diagram for the above data warehouse using one of
the schema classes.
c. Starting with the base cuboid [day,doctor,patient], what specific
OLAP operations should be performed in order to list the total fee
collected by each doctor in 2010?

Q3. A data warehouse can be modelled by either a star schema or a


snowflake schema or fact constellation. Briefly describe the similarities
and the differences of the two models, and then analyze their advantages
and disadvantages with regard to one another. Give your opinion of which
might be more empirically useful and state the reasons behind your answer.

Q4. In data warehouse technology, a multiple dimensional view can be


implemented by a relational database technique (ROLAP), by a
multidimensional database technique (MOLAP), or by a hybrid database
technique (HOLAP).
a. Briefly describe each implementation technique.
b. Which implementation techniques do you prefer, and why?
c. For each technique, explain how each of the following functions
may be implemented:
i. The generation of a data warehouse (including aggregation)
ii. Roll-up
iii. Drill-down

Q5. Briefly compare the following concepts. You may use an example to
explain your point(s).
a. Data cleaning, data transformation, refresh

Q6. Suppose that a data warehouse for Big University consists of the four
dimensions student, course, semester, and instructor, and two measures
count and avg grade. At the lowest conceptual level (e.g., for a given
student, course, semester, and instructor combination), the avg grade
measure stores the actual course grade of the student. At higher conceptual
levels, avg grade stores the average grade for the given combination.
a. Starting with the base cuboid [student,course,semester,instructor],
what specific OLAP operations (e.g., roll-up from semester to year)
should you perform in order to list the average grade of CS courses
for each Big University student.

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