LibGuides: CIS631: Module 1

Module 1 Required Resources

Database Systems: Design, Implementation, and Management by Carlos Coronel; Steven Morris
ISBN: 9780357673034
Publication Date: 2022-12-30
Database skills are among the most in-demand IT skills. With its practical, accessible approach, this text equips you with a solid foundation in database design and implementation for today's market.

Read:
- Chapter 2: Data Models
  - This chapter provides a treatment of the various data modules that exist and a further indication of how they are needed for a domain’s data, information, and content needs.
- Chapter 3: The Relational Database Model
  - This chapter focuses on the most used model for a domain’s data, information, and content needs.

Your course textbook can be accessed via the DART eBook link in the Getting Started module.

Review the following article to gain insight into the DIKW Hierarchy.

The Wisdom Hierarchy: Representation of the DIKW Hierarchy
Rowley, Jennifer. (2007). The Wisdom Hierarchy: Representations of the DIKW Hierarchy. Journal of Information Science, 33 (2) 2007, pp. 163–180
The topic of this article generally gets a little introductory treatment in any book that discusses data, information, or knowledge. However, these treatments are generally not formal and generally (because the usage of these words is broad and informal) cannot even move to an operational differentiation of these terms. This scholarly article examines this usage and provides a means for a generally useful differentiation of these terms, which is helpful for this course.

To complete Assignment 2: Complete a Customer Analysis Case Study, you must purchase the case study from the Harvard Business Review website.

Customer Analytics at Bigbasket – Product Recommendations Case Study
Abraham, P., Pradhan, M., S, L., Iyer, G., & Unnikrishnan, D. (2016, May 1). Customer Analytics at Bigbasket - Product Recommendations. Harvard Business Review. https://store.hbr.org/product/customer-analytics-at-bigbasket-product-recommendations/IMB573?from=quickSearch