Data Warehousing role on Information Systems - Interim Project Report

Information Technology Capstone Project TOPIC: Data Warehousing: What role does it play on Information Systems

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To successfully pass this subject you need to complete the below:

1) Assessment 1: Project Plan (1,000 words) – COMPLETED SEE ATTACHED 2) Assessment 2: Interim Draft Report (2,000 words) – YOU NEED TO DO THIS NOW 3) Assessment 3: Project Report (5,000 words) – DUE AFTER 2 weeks 4) Assessment 4: Project Presentation (10 minutes) – DUE AFTER 3 weeks

Task for now: Assessment 2 out of 4: Interim Draft Report

Conduct appropriate research for your project topic. Learn how to extract and synthesise data from a range of

sources (including published literature) and present them coherently in a written, structured format.

Submission details:

Length: 2000 words Microsoft Word document. (INTERIM DRAFT REPORT)

Overview:

Information Technology is a rapidly changing discipline. To ensure that you are aware of the latest

developments in any topic, all projects need to scan the academic literature and current professional

information in your project topic area.

Research requirements:

• Require substantial research of mainly peer reviewed academic literature.

• Research projects will need to use peer reviewed sources from discipline databases like Science Direct,

Google Scholars, ACM, and Emerald for academic literature.

• You are required to find out what is currently known on your topic.

• What sources need to be consulted.

• What approach will you use to conduct/develop/implement your project.

Minimum specified sources for this research include:

Minimum of 30 peer-reviewed sources and professional sources are needed for your review to complete this Interim

Draft Report.

Quality Information Sources

As part of your research, you are required to submit a project bibliography organised around a series of research

questions that are appropriate to your project. Stating and framing questions that will focus your research will help

you search for appropriate sources (for example, a project on Evaluating Web Accessibility of a website may have

one research question that focuses on what tools are currently available to determine web accessibility?)

Each research question needs to have sources organised into the following categories:

✓ Professional sources

✓ Academic, peer reviewed sources

✓ General internet searches.

✓SUBMIT: Appendix part of the interim draft report.

PLEASE FOLLOW THE SUPERVISOR INSTRUCTIONS WHEN WORKING ON THIS REPORT – SEE ATTACHED FILE.

Information Technology Capstone Project TOPIC: Data Warehousing: What role does it play on Information Systems

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Interim Report Structure

Like all academic writing, your interim report will need to consist of three parts:

1. an introduction

2. a body

3. and the conclusion

The body of your interim report will be determined by your topic, the available literature, and the broader

requirements of the project.

Presentation

Distribution: Your interim report could be organised following:

• Abstract: no more than 250 words

• Introduction:1 – 1 and 1/2 pages

• Methods: 1 – 1 and 1/2 pages

• Results: 3 – 4 pages

• Discussion: 2 pages

• Conclusion: 1/2 page

Outcome: Your interim draft report should demonstrate your growing knowledge of your topic and what else needs

to be done to successfully complete your project.

You are also required to write an abstract for your work that provides a summary of your research.

The abstract should include:

• Purpose/Motivation: research questions, relevance & context of the project (one or two sentences).

• Design/Methodology/Approach: Explain the methods used for the data collection in your project (this includes

literature; and other analyses your project requires)

• Results/Findings: Briefly outline the results of your systematic search; the consistent themes, any gaps if

appropriate (one or two sentences).

• Conclusion: final assessment of the overall evidence and how it will help you conduct the rest of your project (one

or two sentences).

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The introduction should include:

• the nature of the topic under discussion (the topic of your project)

• the reason for the project

• relevance

• the research questions addressed

• the parameters of the topic (what does it include and exclude)?

The body paragraphs should include:

Methodology/methodologies

Searching the literature

Literature/article selection

Evaluating the evidence

• targeted search: identify names, dates databases, professional sources searched

• Search strategy: keywords, phrases used

• Why was information included and/ or excluded?

• What specific topics of interest were targeted?

• Study design classification? (In the articles selected, did you look at the types of methods used to report findings)

Results

Literature collection and selection Critical evaluation and synthesis

• How many sources collected

• How many reviewed

• How did you classify organise the literature? (e.g., methodologies and methods in use; general conclusions that are being drawn)

• What are the key themes and ideas common in the literature?

• What contradictions/ inconsistencies did you find?

• What relationships did you find between articles?

• What gaps did you find?

Discussion

Examining the evidence

• What does the evidence mean overall? Explain the information found. What answers did you find to your research questions?

• What gaps did you find?

• What else needs to be done?

Implications

• From the information found, what will you do to implement your project?

• What processes/information/practices do you need to use/follow to successfully complete your

project?

The conclusion should include:

Summarise findings

• Restate the purpose of your review

• Describe the overall evidence: a summary of major findings (agreements and disagreements)

A summary of general conclusions that are being drawn.

A summary of where your project sits in the literature and how your research will help you conduct

your project.

• What has been gained from the review

• What is your take home message?