Difference between revisions of "Week 6"

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This journal entry is due on Tuesday, October 13, at midnight PDT. (Monday night/Tuesday morning)

Overview

The purpose of this assignment is:

• To apply the technical knowledge and skills learned so far to defining and loading a relational database from scratch
• To experience a real-world example of how raw data sets can be distributed and formatted
• To get some practice with SQL queries

Individual Journal Assignment

• Store this journal entry as "username Week 6" (i.e., this is the text to place between the square brackets when you link to this page).
• Link from your user page to this Assignment page.
• Link to your journal entry from your user page.
• Link back from your journal entry to your user page.
• Don't forget to add the "Journal Entry" category to the end of your wiki page.
  • Note: you can easily fulfill all of these links by adding them to your template and then using your template on your journal entry.
• For your assignment this week, you will keep an electronic laboratory notebook on your individual journal entry page for this week. An electronic laboratory notebook records all the manipulations you perform on the data and the answers to the questions throughout the protocol. Like a paper lab notebook found in a wet lab, it should contain enough information so that you or someone else could reproduce what you did using only the information from the notebook.

Homework Partners

For this week, we return to homework partner pairs. The assignments are:

• Mary Alverson, Erich Yanoschik
• Nicole Anguiano, Mahrad Saeedi
• Brandon Klein, Lena Olufson
• Ronald Legaspi, Jake Woodlee
• Brandon Litvak, Josh Kuroda
• Veronica Pacheco, Kevin Wyllie
• Trixie Roque, Emily Simso
• Anu Varshneya, Kristin Zebrowski

The FDA Drug Database

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provides, as a matter of public record, the full data set for its approved drugs at this website: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/InformationOnDrugs/ucm079750.htm

The site includes both a link to the downloadable files (compressed in .zip format) and the schema (“entity relationship diagram”) for those files.

Using these files, what you have learned about sed and SQL thus far, and additional information found in this wiki and on the aforementioned FDA website, do the following:

1. Download and uncompress the files.
2. Define appropriate tables for the Application, Product, and ChemicalType_Lookup entities.
3. Process the data files for these entities then load them into those tables.
4. Answer the questions below.

Shared Journal Assignment

• Store your journal entry in the shared Class Journal Week 6 page. If this page does not exist yet, go ahead and create it (congratulations on getting in first :) )
• Link to your journal entry from your user page.
• Link back from the journal entry to your user page.
  • NOTE: you can easily fulfill the links part of these instructions by adding them to your template and using the template on your user page.
• Sign your portion of the journal with the standard wiki signature shortcut (~~~~).
• Add the "Journal Entry" and "Shared" categories to the end of the wiki page (if someone has not already done so).