Agenda for today A brief discussion of EDBT/ICDT Planning for project presentations Looking back at past papers

A brief discussion of EDBT/ICDT with chocolate

Preparing for project presentations Please look at the project page for what to include: A good description the project The motivation for why this project is interesting What makes this project non-trivial A description of how the project fits into the class A presentation of the results thus far A discussion of what results you expect by the deadline A discussion of the difficulties or surprises that you had If your project is in a group, everyone must speak. Please sign up for a presentation slot Presentations should take 15 minutes

Speaking of the project… Plagiarism

Looking back at the past

Over the course of the past term, we’ve looked at many topics Relational roots Query Optimization Overview Two Query Optimizers Query Execution Transaction Processing Answering Queries Using Views/Data Integration Adaptive Execution Object-Oriented and Object-Relational Databases XML 40 years of data models: what goes around comes around On Line Analytic Processing (OLAP) Parallel Databases and No SQL Critiquing No SQL New-SQL Data Mining The Role of Theory

Today we’ll be doing a meta discussion about what’ve read Likes and dislikes Things learned Usefulness Interests

#1: likes and dislikes Rank the papers from the topic you liked the best (#1) to the topic you liked the least. Be especially ready to justify: What was your favourite topic and why? What was your least favourite topic and why?

#2: Usefulness Rank the topics from most useful (#1) to least useful. Be able to justify in particular: What topic will be the most useful to you personally and why? What topic will be the least useful to you personally and why?

#3: Interests Rank the topics covered from most interesting (#1) to least interesting. In particular, be able to justify: What topic would you personally be the most interested in working on and why? What topic would you personally be the least interested in working on and why?

I coulda been a contenda If you could have written any one paper that we covered, which one would you want to have written and why?

Choosing the route less travelled by Are there any data management topics that we didn’t cover that you would have liked to see covered?