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Phone : (+353)-1-402-2811
Fax       : (+353)-1-402-4985
Email   : brendan.tierney@dit.ie
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DT217 Business System Intelligence  &  DT230 Business Systems Intelligence

Lecture : Monday 7pm - 10pm (Room : A26)                        Lecture : Monday 2pm - 5pm (Room: 3-30 Aungier St)

Lab         : Monday 7pm - 10pm (Room : A116)                      Lab         : Monday 2pm - 5pm (Room : 1-005 Aung. St)

 

Lecturer : Brendan Tierney

 

 Date

 Lecture Topic

 Additional Information

2nd Feb

Course Introduction & Overview

 

Very Interesting Video

Sign up to otn.oracle.com

Data Mining in Business Chapter

Fayyad Paper on KDD

Overview of Data Warehousing Paper

 

Class Discussion - "What is Business Intelligence" and "How does it relate to Data Warehousing"

Class Discussion - Find the definition that Ralph Kimball gives for a Data Warehouse and compare it to the one given by Bill Inmon

Class Discussion - What are the differences between Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Data (KDD)

9th Feb

Data Warehousing

Overview of Data Warehousing Paper

Kimball's Ch1 on Requirements

Fayyad Paper on KDD

DM Review Article on Managing Data Warehouse Growth

Introduction to Data Warehousing Video

Class Discussion - "Data Rich but Information Poor"

16th Feb

Data Warehousing Class Discussion - "What are the differences between a Data Warehouse and a Transactional System"

Class Discussion - "What are the differences between a Data Warehouse and an Operational Data Store"

Data Warehousing Video - Deign & Tables

Data Warehousing Video - ETL

23rd Feb

Data Mining Life Cycle

Data Processing

Crisp-DM

Fayyad Paper on KDD

Introduction to Data Mining - Book Chapter

Data Mining in Business - Book Chapter

Data Mining A Closer Look - Book Chapter

Class  Discussion - Compare CRISP to the SDLC, RAD, etc

Data Mining Tool - Oracle Data Miner or SAS Enterprise Miner

2nd March

Association Analysis DM Review Article on Market Basket Analysis

Tan Book Chapter

ACM paper on Association Mining

Class Exercises - DM Tool Data Association Exercises

9th March

Data Classification Article by Thomas Davenport (Jan 06) on Competing on Analytics

Class Exercises - DM Tool  Data Classification Exercises

16th March

No Class

 

23rd March

Data Classification

Assignment Handout - Make sure you complete the classification exercise before starting the assignment.

Tan Book Chapter

ODM Article - Decisions Grow on Trees

Class Exercises - Complete DM Tool Data Classification Exercises

Class Exercises - DM Tool Data Regression Exercises

US Government Report on their use of Data Mining

30th March

Go to the Lab

Lab Work - Complete all lab work

Commence work on Assignment

6th April

Easter

Work on Assignment

Work on Previous Exam Papers - Complete

              Summer 2008 Question - Paper

              DT210 Semester 1 2008-2009 Paper

13th April

Easter

Work on Assignment

Work on Previous Exam Papers - Complete

              Summer 2008 Question - Paper

              DT210 Semester 1 2008-2009 Paper

20th April

Data Clustering

Student Presentations

Tan Book Chapter

ACM Review Paper on Data Clustering

Class Exercise - DM Tool Data Clustering Exercises

Class Exercise - Work on Assignment

27th April

 Review & Wrap-up

Student Presentations

Assignment Due on Monday 27th April

You will need to submit your assignment using WebCourses

Methodology for Evaluating and Selecting Data Mining Software - Paper

4th May

Bank Holiday

No Class
11th May Revision / Self Study No Class
18th May

Exams

 
   
 
 
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