course outline data mining
course outline data mining
Module Title
Module Code M4913 Course Code: INSC 4914
CP/ECTS 6
Study Hour Lecture: 48 Laboratory: 48 Tutorial: 0 Home Study: 93
Learning Outcomes By the end of this course, students should be able to:
Provide the student with an understanding of the concepts of data
warehousing and data mining
Study the dimensional modeling technique for designing a data warehouse
Study data warehouse architectures, OLAP and the project planning aspects
in building a data warehouse
Explain the knowledge discovery process
Course Content
Topic Duration References
Chapter 1: Introduction to Data Mining 1 -3 Text: Chapter
o What is data mining?
o Data Mining Goals
o Stages of the Data Mining Process
o Overview of Data Mining Techniques
o Knowledge Representation Methods
o Integration of a data mining system with Related
technologies - Machine Learning, DBMS, OLAP, Data
Warehouses, Statistics
o Major issues in Data Mining
o Applications of Data Mining
Chapter 2. Data Warehousing and Online Analytical Processing 4-7 Text: Chapter
2.1. Introduction to Data Warehouse
2.2. Characteristics of Data Warehouse
2.3. Types of Data Warehouse
2.4. Differences between Operational Database Systems
and Data Warehouses
2.5. Tools for Data warehouse development
2.6. Data Warehousing: A Multitiered Architecture
2.7. Data Warehouse Models: Enterprise Warehouse, Data
Mart, and Virtual Warehouse
2.8. Extraction, Transformation, and Loading
2.9. Metadata Repositories
2.10. Advantages and Applications of Data Warehouse
2.11. Introduction to OLAP
2.12. Characteristics of OLAP
2.13. Steps in the OLAP Creation Process
2.14. Advantages of OLAP
2.15. OLAP Architectures
2.16. Differences between OLTP Systems and Data
Warehousing
Chapter 5: Advanced techniques, Data Mining software and 13-14 Text: Chapter
applications
5.1. Text mining: extracting attributes (keywords),
structural approaches (parsing, soft parsing).
5.2. Bayesian approach to classifying text
5.3. Web mining: classifying web pages, extracting
knowledge from the web
5.4. Data Mining software and applications
Chapter 6: Data Mining and Society; Future Directions 15-16 Text: Chapter