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Undergraduate Course: Informatics 1 - Data and Analysis (INFR08015)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Informatics CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryAn introduction to collecting, representing and interpreting data across the range of informatics. Students will learn the different perspectives from which data is used, the different terminology used when referring to them and a number of representation and manipulation methods. The course will present a small number of running, illustrative examples from the perspectives of hypothesis testing and query formation and answering.
Course description Structured data and relational databases. Semistructured data and XML. Text corpora. Unstructured data and its analysis.

Relevant QAA Computing Curriculum Sections: to be confirmed
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Informatics 1 - Computation and Logic (INFR08012) AND Informatics 1 - Functional Programming (INFR08013)
Co-requisites Students MUST also take: Informatics 1 - Object-Oriented Programming (INFR08014)
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements SCE H-grade Mathematics or equivalent is desirable.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 19, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 8, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 68 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Formative assessment will be used to provide feedback and guidance to students and will take the form of quizzes, exercise sheets, practical exercises and coursework assignments, covering areas from across the syllabus.
Feedback Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)2:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)2:00
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the terminology and paradigms used in different areas of informatics for collecting, representing and interpreting data, by being able to apply them to sample problems
  2. Demonstrate understanding of different types of data (for example, structured/semistructured/unstructured, quantitative/qualitative) , and of the proficiency of the entity/relationship model by being able to specify appropriate representations and queries for simple examples
  3. Show awareness of the importance of logic for the representation of data by being able to design simple logical representation of a given data set , and to present data in a variety of forms (textual, graphical, quantitative), across a range of data types
  4. Show awareness of the distinction between object data and meta-data, by being able to apply it to a number of applications across informatics (e.g., databases, corpora)
  5. Demonstrate knowledge of the basic algorithms for interpreting and processing data, by being able to demonstrate how these algorithms work for simple data sets
Reading List
* Database Management Systems Raghu Ramakrishnan, Johannes Gehrke McGraw-Hill, Third edition, 2002
* Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction Tony McEnery, Andrew Wilson Edinburgh University Press, Second edition, 2001
Additional Information
Course URL http://course.inf.ed.ac.uk/inf1-da
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Ian Stark
Tel: (0131 6)50 5143
Email: Ian.Stark@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Rob Armitage
Tel: (0131 6)50 5194
Email: Rob.Armitage@ed.ac.uk
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