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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">PDXPUG: Introductory Database Education at PSU</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2009-05-21T19:00:00" datetime="2009-05-21T19:00:00">Thursday, May 21, 2009 from 7</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2009-05-21T20:00:00" datetime="2009-05-21T20:00:00">8pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202389965'><span class='fn org p-name'>Free Geek</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">1731 SE 10th Avenue</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97214</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1731%20SE%2010th%20Avenue,%20Portland%20OR%2097214%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>by Len Shapiro</p> <p>Abstract: I'll survey how I teach the introductory database course at PSU. My goal for the talk is to elicit suggestions for how I could do a better job. The theme of the course is "transforming data into Information". I use a 200 Meg database, hosted on PostgreSQL, instead of the one-slide databases used in typical intro courses, to illustrate the principles of the course. The database is Federal Elections Commission data re donations to candidates, so queries often reflect real questions about the real data.</p> <p>Bio: Len Shapiro has been a professor at PSU for 23 years. His research interests are primarily in query processing.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>