Real-world data are commonly messy, distributed, and heterogeneous. This course introduces core concepts of data cleaning, standardisation, and data integration, that are aimed at converting and mapping raw data into other formats that allow more efficient and convenient use and analysis of data. The courses also discusses data quality, management, and storage issues as relevant to data analytics.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Critically reflect upon different data sources, types, formats and structures,
- Justify and apply data cleaning, preprocessing, and standardisation for data analytics,
- Apply data integration concepts and techniques to heterogeneous and distributed data,
- Interpret, assess and discuss data quality measurements,
- Understand and be able to use advanced data wrangling, data integration, and database techniques as relevant to data analytics.
Other Information
Professional Skills Mapping:
Mapping of Learning Outcomes to Assessment and Professional Competencies
Indicative Assessment
- Written and practical assignments (30) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
- Oral presentation and report (20) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
- Final examination (50) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
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Workload
The workload for the course is around 130 hours, including reading, the viewing of online course material, participation in face-to-face lectures, practical labs and tutorials, and preparation for assessmentsInherent Requirements
Information on inherent requirements for this course is currently not available.
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
None
Preliminary Reading
Data Matching - Concepts and Techniques fro Record Linkage, Entity Resolution and Duplicate Detection,Peter Christen, Springer, 2012
For more information see: http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~christen/data-matching-book-2012.html
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 2
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
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| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
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