Providing Students with Proper Knowledge and Skills for Analytics and Big Data

Serve as Director Funded by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development Developed LaCrash application to electronically capture crash reporting information Collect, maintain, integrate, analyze, and disseminate traffic accident data for the state

ISDS HSRG is part of Information Systems and Decision Sciences (ISDS) within the College of Business at LSU Serve as Assistant Professor of Research Teach undergraduate and graduate Business Intelligence courses ISDS 4180 Undergraduate BI capstone course Traditional course ISDS 7301 First of four courses within certification program 7 week online course

LSU utilizes Moodle for their online course management system

Laptops Students within ISDS and MBA program are required to have their own laptop Any Intel Core 2, Core i5 or i7 CPU. Intel (i7 recommended) or AMD single core CPU (with a 3 GHz processor speed or faster (multiple CPUs and/or multi-core CPUs are recommended) with Windows 8 (64-bit) or Windows 10 (64-bit) 8GB RAM (16 recommended) 500GB Hard drive All work is performed locally on their laptops

Software SQL PowerPivot Tableau Free version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Express https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/download-sql-server- management-studio-ssms PowerPivot Microsoft Excel 2016 LSU has site license for Microsoft Office Tableau Free version of Tableau 10 https://www.tableau.com/academic

Book Created my own textbook using McGraw Hill Create Utilize only certain chapters from the books I like the most SQL Microsoft SQL Server 2012: A Beginners Guide Business Intelligence Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot Practical PowerPivot & DAX Formulas for Excel 2010 Tableau Tableau 9: The Official Guide

SQL Express 2016 Topics include Transactional processing (OLTP) 3rd Normal form Primary/Foreign keys Table joins Writing SQL statements Restoring databases Distribute data as .bak files HSRG utilizes SQL databases to store crash and crash related yearly data

Business Intelligence Concepts Topics include Analytical processing (OLAP) Star/Snowflake schema Extract Transform and Load (ETL) Data Warehouse Fact, Dimension, Attribute, Hierarchy HSRG developed ETL process and created a crash data warehouse (snowflake schema)

PowerPivot Previously taught Multidimensional model (cube) using Sequel Server Analysis Services (SSAS) HSRG still utilizes a cube MDX and XML are used for crash reporting website http://crashdata.lsu.edu/CrashReportIndex.aspx

PowerPivot The Multidimensional model (cube) is massive and requires very technical skills. Not very intuitive Currently teach Tabular Model using PowerPivot in Excel HSRG has PowerPivot models used to analyze data Demonstrate PowerPivot showing crash model

PowerPivot Topics include Loading data into PowerPivot SQL, Excel, and text files Integrating data DAX Calculated fields Tabular Model Pivot Tables Pivot Charts

PowerPivot/SQL Once a PowerPivot model is built, discuss how SQL views can be created to accomplish the same functionality. Views Data manipulation Case statements If statements Multiple table joins

PowerPivot Great for Current models Visualization Ad hoc inquire into data Quick and easy ‘slicing and dicing’ of data Easy to build and maintain Current models HSRG tabular model has over 12 million records ISDS course uses a subset of the data, 4 million records Visualization PowerPivot is OK for data visualization In my opinion, it is not the best

Tableau Topics include Loading data into Tableau Calculated fields SQL, Excel, and text files Do not discuss data blending Calculated fields Best practices for data visualization Charts and graphs Dashboards

Tableau HSRG uses Tableau to create dashboards to help stakeholders analyze and visualize data http://http://crashdata.lsu.edu/shsps.aspx Starting to evaluate Tableau for handling GIS functionality

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Level 2

Level 3 - Crash

Level 3 - Person

Level 3 – Crash Normalized

Course Project Students are given a dataset to analyze and must write a formal report and present results. Use SQL to build a view Use PowerPivot to analyze data to find points of interest Use Tableau to build dashboard to further analyze points of interest and look into interaction of variables

Contact Information Cory Hutchinson Email: cory@lsu.edu Phone: 225.578.1433 http://hsrg.lsu.edu