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TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE ISDS 556 Spring 2013 Specific due dates and times for each assignment are provided below. The following is a tentative schedule and changes may be applied to it. Discussions open up for about a week from Monday at 12am to Sunday at 11:55pm Week Topics Readings Assignments Due Week 1 (1/5- - Introduction to course Syllabus, Read and reflect on the 1/11) - Introducing the BI project Chapter 1 Competing on Analytics Lifecycle paper Week 2 - Launching and Managing the Chapter 2 Discussion 1 due by 1/20 @ (1/12-1/18) Project/ Program 11:55pm Week 3 - Collecting the Requirements Chapter 3 (1/19-1/25) Week 4 - Introducing the Technical Chapter 4 Discussion 2(~ Chapters 1 & (1/26-2/1) Architecture 2), due by 2/3 @11:55pm o Divide your readings over the 2 Week 5 week period as you wish (2/2-2/8) Week 6 - Creating an architecture Plan Chapter 5 Discussion 3 (~Chapters 3 & (2/9 2/15) and Selecting Products 4) due by 2/17 @ 11:55pm Week 7 - Introduction to Dimensional Chapter 6 Discussion 4 (~Chapter 5) (2/16 2/22) Modeling +additional due 3/3 @ 11:55pm o Divide your readings over the 2 PPTs and Week 8 Project Proposal Due week period as you wish papers on (2/23 3/1) 3/3 @ 11:55pm Titanium Week 9 - Designing the Dimensional Chapter 7 (3/2 3/8) Model Week 10 - Introducing BI Applications Chapter 11 Discussion 5 (~ Chapters 6(3/9 3/15) 7) due 3/17 @ 11:55pm Week 11 Review/ Preparation time (3/16 3/22) Interim Exam - Saturday 3/23, 9:00 AM, location TBD Week 12 -Designing & Developing BI Chapter 12 (3/23 3/29) Applications Week 13 Spring Recess, No class materials assigned. Good (3/30 4/5) time for catching up and working on your project. Week 14 - Introducing ETL Chapter 9 Discussion 6 (~Chapters 11(4/6 4/12) 12) due 4/14 @11:55pm Week 15 Time to finalize project report Project Report due by Sat. 4/20 @11:55pm (4/13 4/19) Week 16 Read others project reports and provide project and teammate assessments online by (4/20 4/26) Sat. 4/27 @11:55pm