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Practical Analytics
Chapter 4 | Exercise 1 | Edition 2
4.1
Answer Sheet / Master Data
Nitin Kalé, University of Southern California
Nancy Jones, San Diego State University
K. Freyburger
T. Hagen
STUDENT NAME
Gayathri Siriki.
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Question 1:
Explain why we need 6 fields for material (shown above). Hint: Refer to Exercise 3.2 – Modeling Basics.
6 fields of material as they are characteristic of a product. They include unique identifier,
description, attribute groups, Product Category, Components, Color, Division.
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Question 2:
Why did the system not add a Hierarchy node? Hint: Refer to Exercise 3.2.
Hierarchy nodes are of no use. We did not checklist the hierarchy property in material characteristics.
Question 3:
In the mapping figure above, explain why the left table and right table have different icons for the fields.
The left table are the data source and the right table are InfoObjetcs. They have different icons because we need to connect them to the right table. They are different because they represent different nature of data. Nitin Kalé & Nancy Jones © 2020
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Question 4:
Explain why the Material Description is not connected to anything.
The material description is the description of material, but the material number is the actual ID, which relates to the infoObject.
Material Description does not have any rule.
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Question 5:
In this task, what part(s) of the E,T, L did you implement? Explain.
We extracted and located the material data into the platform. We took material attributes
and loaded it.
Question 6:
Click on the Texts tab. Why are there no texts?
Text haven’t been loaded.
Question 7:
In the mapping figure above, why are only material description and material number connected?
Text it only needs to connect to the material description and material number for their identifier.
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Question 8:
What rule are we implementing for the language key for material description?
The rule we are implementing for the language key for material description is CONSTANT.
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Question 9:
Are there any non-English material descriptions? Why?
No, material descriptions are non – English. Because the language is only in English.
Question 10:
Why is the description Medium in length?
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