[Year 12 SofDev] SD 2016

[Matheson, Geoff J]

"data management practices that cause conflict between information systems, including data mining”

Different database back-ends for different systems can cause issues for data-mining: requiring processing to make one read from another, etc. Particularly relevant when data-mining is looking for trends across systems.

But that’s all I can think of.

“advantages and disadvantages for stakeholders affected by the operation of information systems”

Would this also include the way that stakeholders are often invested in the status quo, and the introduction (even of an effective IS) can redistribute workload to different stakeholders?

Cheers
Geoff

Geoff Matheson
Leading Teacher: Teaching and Learning Coach
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From: <sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au>> on behalf of Adrian Janson
Reply-To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Date: Monday, 5 October 2015 at 3:11 PM
To: Edulists - Year 12 Software Development
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] SD 2016

Hi everyone,

I am a little torn with two of the (last) KK points for the new study and wanted to see if you had any ideas / advice?  BTW - I have finished the text and have sent it to an editor - while in the meantime attending to the technical additions and questions that you have offered via the dropbox (please do keep doing this - now is the time!!)

So in Unit 4, Outcome 2, we have:

"data management practices that cause conflict between information systems, including data mining"

Now I have spoken about things like a lack of standards or enforcement of these (for example - database structures that are different between systems), but I am struggling to think of many more.

I also feel that the "including data mining" is a bit of a curve ball - as my understanding was that data mining was drilling down in a data set to extract as much information as possible and makes links - but this is not something that you would do with data that isn't yours?? (I may be wrong!!)

We also have the KK point:

"advantages and disadvantages for stakeholders affected by the operation of information systems"

Again it may just be because (being so close to the end of the text), my mind has turned to mush - but I can't make much of this...

Is it just that an effective IS is good because it is fast, responsive, does it's job,etc. and a poorly designed IS means that stakeholders can lose data, waste time, etc.??

Thanks in advance!!!
Adrian Janson



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