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CR32 Knowledge Management and Adaptive Systems
09: Data Warehousingbased on an online presentation by
Ronald J Normanhttp://www.grossmont.edu/ronaldnorman/
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by Professor Ronald J Norman of Grossmont College, CA, USA
• Prof Norman used these slides in his data mining course based on Data Mining Techniques (Second Edition) By Michael J. A. Berry and Gordon S. Linoff2004 John Wiley & Sons
• Management-oriented textbook...http://www.data-miners.com/companion/dmt.html
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Introduction
• Data, data, data…everywhere!• Information…that’s another story!• Especially, the right information @ the right time!• Data warehousing’s goal is to make the right
information available @ the right time• Data warehousing is a data store (eg., a filestore
or database of some sort) and a process for bringing together disparate data from throughout an organization for decision-support purposes
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Introduction
• Data warehouses are natural allies for data mining (work together well)
• Data mining can help fulfill some of the goal of data warehouses – right information @ the right time
• Relational database management systems (RDBMS), such as Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Informix, Focus, SQL Server, etc. can be used for data warehousing; or just store as text/HTML
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Definitions of a Data Warehouse
- W.H. Inmon
“A subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant and
non-volatile collection of data in support of
management's decision making process”
- Ralph Kimball
“A copy of transaction data, specifically structured for query and analysis”
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CW corpus as a Data Warehouse
- W.H. Inmon
Subject-oriented: English terminology on WWW
Integrated: harvested from many sources, into a
single standard format and file-store
Time-variant : WWW pages change!
Non-volatile : corpus is a static snap-shot
- Ralph Kimball
Copy of transaction data: cache
structured for query and analysis: raw text yields word-frequency list
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Data Warehouse
• For organizational learning to take place, data
from many sources must be gathered together
and organized in a consistent and useful way –
hence, Data Warehousing (DW)
• DW allows an organization to archive snapshots
of its data, and what it has noticed about its data
• Data Mining techniques make use of the data in
a Data Warehouse
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Data Warehouse
Customers
Etc…
Vendors Etc…
Orders
DataWarehouse
Enterprise“Database”
Transactions
Copied, organizedsummarized
Data Mining
Data Miners:• “Farmers” – they know• “Explorers” - unpredictable
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Data Warehouse
A data warehouse is a copy of transaction data
specifically structured for querying, analysis, reporting,
and more rigorous data mining
Note that the data warehouse contains a copy of the
transactions which are not updated or changed later by
the transaction system
Also note that this data is specially structured, and may
have been transformed when it was copied into the data
warehouse
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Data Mart
• A Data Mart is a smaller, more focused Data
Warehouse – a mini-warehouse.
• A Data Mart typically reflects the business rules
of a specific business unit within an enterprise.
• Which English dominates the WWW, UK or US:
each student captured a Data Mart for 1 domain.
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Data Warehouse to Data Mart
DataWarehouse
Data Mart
Data Mart
Data Mart
Decision Support
Information
Decision Support
Information
Decision Support
Information
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open source Data Warehouses
• A company may keep its DW private!• Large data-sets are valuable Gold
Standards for research and development• Some Universities host “public” DWs• Eg ICAME: International Computer
Archive of Modern English • ICAME also runs CORPORA forum• Martin Krallinger etc on UK v US English:
http://www.uib.no/mailman/public/corpora-archive/2006-November/003387.html
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Other Data repositories
• UPenn: Linguistic Data Consortium http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
• European equivalents:
• ELRA http://www.elra.info/
• ELDA http://www.elda.org/
• Leeds Electronic Text Centre http://etext.leeds.ac.uk/
• Leeds Centre for Translation Studies http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/
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Generic Architecture of Data
(synonym) Transaction data
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Transaction (Operational) Data
• Operational (production) systems create (massive number of) transactions, such as sales, purchases, deposits, withdrawals, returns, refunds, phone calls, toll roads, web site “hits”, web site text, etc…
• Transactions are the base level of data – the raw material for understanding customer behavior
• Unfortunately, operational systems change, eg new formats, due to changing business needs
• Data warehousing strategies need to be aware of operational system changes
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Operational Summary Data
Summaries are for a specific time period and utilize the transaction data for that time period
Other Examples???
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Decision Support Summary Data
• The data that are used to help make decisions about the business– Financial Data, such as:
• Income Statements (Profit & Loss)• Balance Sheets (Assets – Liabilities = Net Worth)
– Sales summaries– Other examples???
• Data warehouses maintain this type of data, however financial data “of record” (for audit purposes) usually comes from databases and not the data warehouse (confusing???)
• Generally, it is a bad idea to use the same system for analytic and operational purposes
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Database Schema
• Database schema defines the structure of data, not the values of the data (e.g., first name, last name = structure; Ron Norman = values of the data)
• In RDBMS:– Columns = fields = attributes (A,B,C)– Rows = records = tuples (1-7)
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Logical & Physical Database Schema
• Describes data in a way that is familiar to business users
• Describes the data the way it will be stored in an RDBMS which might be different than the way the logical shows it
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Metadata
• General definition: Data about data !!!– Examples:
• A library’s card catalog (metadata) describes publications (data)
• A file system maintains permissions (metadata) about files (data)
• A form of system documentation including:– Values legally allowed in a field (e.g., AZ, CA, OR, UT, WA, etc.)– Description of the contents of each field (e.g., start date)– Date when data were loaded– Indication of currency of the data (last updated)– Mappings between systems (e.g., A.this = B.that)
• Invaluable, otherwise have to research to find it
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Business Rules
• Highest level of abstraction from operational (transaction) data
• Describes why relationships exist and how they are applied
• Examples:– Need to have 3 forms of ID for credit
– Only allow a maximum daily withdrawal of $200
– After the 3rd log-in attempt, lock the log-in screen
– Accept no bills larger than $20
– Others???
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OLAP – Online Analytical Processing
• A definition:
• Data representation for ease of visualization• OLAP goes beyond SQL with its analysis
capabilities• Key feature of OLAP: Relevant multi-dimensional
views such as products, time, geography
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OLAP Architecture
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General Architecture for Data Warehousing
• Source systems
• Extraction, (Clean),
Transformation, &
Load (ETL)
• Central repository
• Metadata repository
• Data marts
• Operational feedback
• End users: analysis,
OLAP, Data-Mining
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DM vs. OLAP
• Data Mining: – can handle complex data types of the
attributes and their aggregations– a more automated process
• Online Analytic Processing (visualization): – restricted to a small number of dimension and
measure types– user-controlled process
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DM + visualization
• Data Mining: – can handle complex data types of the
attributes and their aggregations– “reduces” data to smaller number of patterns
• Visualization: – restricted to a small number of patterns– user-controlled process to select patterns
which are “interesting” or “useful”
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Q: Is it a Data Warehouse?
• Is ANY data-set a Data Warehouse?
• SIS?
• Library Catalogue?
• VLE?
• Text in a textbook?
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Definitions of a Data Warehouse
- W.H. Inmon
“A subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant and
non-volatile collection of data in support of
management's decision making process”
- Ralph Kimball
“A copy of transaction data, specifically structured for query and analysis”
1.
2.
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CW corpus as a Data Warehouse
- W.H. Inmon
Subject-oriented: English terminology on WWW
Integrated: harvested from many sources, into a
single standard format and file-store
Time-variant : WWW pages change!
Non-volatile : corpus is a static snap-shot
- Ralph Kimball
Copy of transaction data: cache
structured for query and analysis: raw text yields word-frequency list
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2.