1. Copyright © 2006, Infinite Campus, Inc. All rights reserved. Data Analysis: How to Build a Cube

2. Copyright © 2006, Infinite Campus, Inc. All rights reserved. Objective & Agenda Learn how to use the Cube Designer to analyze data Overview Categories and Measures Filtering Preferences Graphs Reports Exporting Review

3. Copyright © 2006, Infinite Campus, Inc. All rights reserved. Cube Designer by Databeacon Third party OLAP tool to analyze data in Campus using pivot tables.  OLAP- online analytic processing of data in a database.  Pivot Table- the ability to quickly drag and drop data into different row or column positions.

4. Copyright © 2006, Infinite Campus, Inc. All rights reserved. Categories and Measures Categories are descriptive attributes of students, e.g., gender, race, economic indicator, etc. Measures are counts where categories intersect. In this cube, the counts are students and attendance rate for the categories of race/ethnicity.

5. Copyright © 2006, Infinite Campus, Inc. All rights reserved. Filtering: Filter by pattern Right click on the category and you get the filter by pattern option which allows you to search for specific text for including (check show matching) or exclusion. Now only the measures for non-white students are returned.

6. Copyright © 2006, Infinite Campus, Inc. All rights reserved. Filtering: Select Right click on the category Race when it’s listed at the top. You then can filter the data to show only the races you select. Now the measure shows only results for American Indians.

7. Copyright © 2006, Infinite Campus, Inc. All rights reserved. Preferences

8. Copyright © 2006, Infinite Campus, Inc. All rights reserved. Graphs: Bar, Pie, Line

9. Copyright © 2006, Infinite Campus, Inc. All rights reserved. Reports You can save different displays that you work on within an analysis session. They display as reports.

10. Copyright © 2006, Infinite Campus, Inc. All rights reserved. Exporting Analysis data can be exported to: Excel Word PDF Tab delimited Comma delimited

11. Copyright © 2006, Infinite Campus, Inc. All rights reserved. Review 1. Describe different ways you can filter information. 2. What are some applications for the functions you can use at the advanced level?