About this course: The capstone course, Design and Build a Data Warehouse for Business Intelligence Implementation, features a real-world case study that integrates your learning across all courses in the specialization. In response to business requirements presented in a case study, you’ll design and build a small data warehouse, create data integration workflows to refresh the warehouse, write SQL statements to support analytical and summary query requirements, and use the MicroStrategy business intelligence platform to create dashboards and visualizations. In the first part of the capstone course, you’ll be introduced to a medium-sized firm, learning about their data warehouse and business intelligence requirements and existing data sources. You’ll first architect a warehouse schema and dimensional model for a small data warehouse. You’ll then create data integration workflows using Pentaho Data Integration to refresh your data warehouse. Next, you’ll write SQL statements for analytical query requirements and create materialized views to support summary data management. Finally, you will use MicroStrategy OLAP capabilities to gain insights into your data warehouse. In the completed project, you’ll have built a small data warehouse containing a schema design, data integration workflows, analytical queries, materialized views, dashboards and visualizations that you’ll be proud to show to your current and prospective employers.
Created by:Â Â University of Colorado System
Taught by:Â Â Michael Mannino, Associate Professor
Business School, University of Colorado Denver
Taught by:Â Â Jahangir Karimi, Professor
Information Systems University of Colorado Denver
| Basic Info | Course 5 of 5 in the Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence Specialization |
| Commitment | 6 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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Syllabus
WEEK 1
Course Overview
Module 1 introduces the objectives and topics in the course and provides background on the case and software requirements. The capstone course is organized around a realistic case study based on the business situation faced by CPI Card Group in 2015.
3 videos, 9 readings
- Reading: Slides for lesson 1
- Video: Course topics and assignments video lesson
- Reading: Slides for lesson 2
- Video: Executive interview
- Reading: Slides for lesson 3
- Reading: Background on CPI Card Group
- Reading: Overview of software requirements
- Reading: Oracle database server installation
- Reading: Pentaho Data Integration installation
- Reading: Microstrategy Desktop installation
- Reading: Database diagramming tools
WEEK 2
Data Warehouse Design
Module 2 presents the requirements of the first part of the case study involving data warehouse design. To provide a context for the case study, you can listen to an executive interview with a CPI Card Group executive.
1 video, 4 readings
- Reading: Slides for lesson 1
- Reading: Data warehouse design background
- Reading: Documents for the module 2 assignment
- Reading: Documents to review after the assignment
Graded: Data warehouse design assignment
WEEK 3
Data Integration
Module 3 presents requirements for the second part of the case study involving data integration. To provide a context for the case study, you can listen to executive interviews with executives from CPI Card Group, First Bank, and Pinnacol Assurance.
3 videos, 5 readings, 1 practice quiz
- Reading: Slides for lesson 1
- Video: Executive interview
- Reading: Slides for lesson 2
- Video: Executive interview
- Reading: Slides for lesson 3
- Reading: Data integration background
- Reading: Documents for the module 3 assignment
- Practice Quiz: Practice Quiz for module 5 assignment-Test DW
Graded: Assignment for module 3
Graded: Quiz for module 5 assignment-Production DW
WEEK 4
Analytical Queries and Summary Data Management
Module 4 presents requirements for the third part of the case study involving analytical queries and summary data management.
1 video, 3 readings
- Reading: Slides for lesson 1
- Reading: Documents for the module 4 assignment
- Reading: Solutions to challenge problems
Graded: Analytical Query Assignment
WEEK 5
Data Visualization and Dashboard Design Requirements
Module 5 presents the data visualization and dashboard design requirements for the fourth part of the case study.
2 videos, 4 readings
- Reading: Slides for executive interview with Matthew Caton
- Video: Executive Interview with Tyler Wilson on BI Platform Capabilities at CPI Card Group
- Reading: Capstone Project Data Visualizations and Dashboard Design Requirements
- Reading: Earlier Assignments from Course 4
- Reading: Q & A and Error Knowledge base
WEEK 6
Wrap Up and Project Submission
This is an extension of Module 5. The peer assessment from module 5 is moved to module 6 to give you more time completing the assignments in prior modules as well as for you to do your peer assessment in this module.
2 videos, 1 reading
- Reading: Background Information on Data Visualization and Dashboard Design
- Video: Course conclusion video lecture
Graded: Data Visualization and Dashboard Design Assignment
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Ratings and Reviews
good and challenge
Excellent Specialization. I will recommend this course to all my friends.
I loved the 1st 4 weeks of this capstone course which focused on data warehouse design, data integration and writing queries. All of the assignments were challenging but fair. Unfortunately, I do not feel the same way about the data visualization module. The sample dashboards provided are not well done enough to be used in a professional setting.
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Very practical and useful