Patterns in Data Management: A Flipped Textbook - Softcover

Dittrich, Jens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1523853964 ISBN 13: 9781523853960

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

This book is not a standard textbook. This book was written extending and complementing preexisting educational videos I designed and recorded in winter 2013/14. The main goal of these videos was to use them in my flipped classroom “Database Systems” which is an intermediate-level university course designed for B.Sc. students in their third year or M.Sc. students of computer science and related disciplines. Though in general my students liked both the flipped classroom model and (most of) the videos, several students asked for an additional written script that would allow them to quickly lookup explanations for material in text that would otherwise be hard to re-find in the videos. Therefore, in spring 2015, I started working on such a course script which more and more evolved into something that I feel comfortable calling it a book. One central question I had to confront was: would I repeat all material from the videos in the textbook? In other words, would the book be designed to work without the videos? I quickly realized that writing such an old-fashioned text-oriented book, a “textbook”, wouldn’t be the appropriate thing to do anymore in 2015. My videos as well as the accompanying material are freely available to everyone anyways. And unless you are sitting on the local train from Saarbrücken to Neustadt, you will almost always have Internet access to watch them. In fact, downloading the videos in advance isn’t terribly hard anyway. This observation changed the original purpose of what this book would be good for: not so much the primary source of the course’s content, but a different view on that content, explaining that content where possible in other words. In addition, one goal was to be concise in the textual explanations allowing you to quickly re-find and remember things you learned from the videos without going through a large body of text.

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About the Author

Jens Dittrich is a Full Professor of Computer Science in the area of Databases, Data Management, and Big Data at Saarland University, Germany. Previous affiliations include U Marburg, SAP AG, and ETH Zurich. He is also associated to CISPA (Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability). He received an Outrageous Ideas and Vision Paper Award at CIDR 2011; a BMBF VIP Grant in 2011; a best paper award at VLDB 2014 (the second ever given to an E&A paper); two CS teaching awards in 2011 and 2013; several presentation awards including a qualification for the interdisciplinary German science slam finals in 2012; and three presentation awards at CIDR (2011, 2013, and 2015). He has been a PC member of prestigious international database conferences such as PVLDB/VLDB, SIGMOD, and ICDE. In addition, he has been an area chair at PVLDB, a group leader at SIGMOD, and an associate editor at VLDBJ. His research focuses on fast access to big data including in particular: data analytics on large datasets, main-memory databases, database indexing, and reproducibility (see https://github.com/uds-datalab/PDBF). Since 2013 he has been teaching some of his classes on data management as flipped classrooms (aka inverted classrooms). See: http://datenbankenlernen.de http://youtube.com/jensdit for a list of freely available videos on database technology in German and English (about 80 videos in German and 80 in English so far).

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1523853964
• ISBN 13: 9781523853960
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310