This document describes a student project called Jokes4Miles that aims to build the funniest joke database. It introduces the four students working on the project and their roles. It outlines the project timeline and challenges of scalability, large data volume, limited hardware resources, and delivering consistent content on a nonprofit budget. It discusses the database design process, data modeling, implementation, and integration with the website. It also covers lessons learned around normalization issues, resolving many-to-many relationships, organizing meetings, and creating complex queries.
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Jokes4Miles Joke Database
1. BUILDINGTHE FUNNIEST
DATABASE ON EARTH
Starring: Eric Tendian, Emmanuel Ampo,
Mohammad Khan, Safia Abdalla
Visit us at: Northside College Preparatory High School
14. THE COMEDIANS
Eric Tendian Safia Abdalla
Mohammad Khan Emmanuel Ampo
Project Manager
Lead Engineer
Skills: Web Dev, Frontend
Data Scientist
Skills: AI, Machine Learning
Business Relations
Data Architect
Skills: Database Design
Relationship Manager
Skills: Management
18. DATABASE DESIGN
Define information requirements
Define entities
List assumptions
Document business rules
Define relationships between entities
Create the ERD
27. What went wrong?
Our ERD had normalization issues.
We had to resolve our many to many relationships.
We had trouble organizing group meetings.
Creating queries to retrieve all necessary information.
28. Taking what we learned in class and applying it to an actual project.
How to meet deadlines (time management).
To never give up.
What did we learn?
