Introduction to Data Wrangling and Management

Reading

• Links to reading here

Notes

• Walkthrough of how to access the ACM resources
• Working with data / information has many facets. We will touch on the following:
  • Collecting Information across various sources and formats
  • Storage and maintenance of the collected data
  • Access policies
  • Querying the data
• In-class activity: Plan a system for online evaluations at the college.
  • Who are our different clients?
  • What do they each need from the system?
  • What different pieces of information do we need to store?
  • How do the different pieces of information relate to each other?
  • Where is that information coming from?
  • What information do we need to make available to the different client?
  • What are the logical entities that comprise that information? What are their relations?
  • What kind of access/service do we need to provide to our clients?