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DT217 Business System Intelligence

 

Lecturer : Brendan Tierney

 

Lecture : Monday 7pm - 10pm (Room : A26)

Lab        : Monday 7pm - 10pm (Room : A308)

 

 Date

 Lecture Topic

 Additional Information

28th Jan

Course Introduction & Overview

 

Very Interesting Video

Watch it and we will discuss it in class

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Data Mining in Business Chapter

Fayyad Paper on KDD

Overview of Data Warehousing Paper

Introduction to Oracle Book Chapter

Class Exercise -Divide into groups of 3. Each group is to use a search engine to find two recent stories involving data mining. Do not use case studies. Describe the role of data mining. You will need to coordinate with the other groups. Each group will be required to give a short 10 minute overview of the two stories using your own words. 

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)

4th Feb

No Class  

11th Feb

Introduction to DW & DM

Data Warehousing

Overview of Data Warehousing Paper

Kimball's Ch1 on Requirements

Fayyad Paper on KDD

DM Review Article on Managing Data Warehouse Growth

Class Discussion - "Data Rich but Information Poor"

18th 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"

25th 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

Class Exercises - Introduction to Oracle Data Miner (ODM) and data exploration exercises

3rd March

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

Class Exercises - Complete - Introduction to Oracle Data Miner (ODM) and data exploration exercises

Class Exercises - See ODM Data Classification Exercises

10th 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 ODM Data Classification Exercises

US Government Report on their use of Data Mining

17th March

Easter  

24th March

Easter

 

31st March

Association Analysis DM Review Article on Market Basket Analysis

Tan Book Chapter

ACM paper on Association Mining

Class Exercises - See ODM Data Association Exercises

7th April

Data Clustering

Tan Book Chapter

ACM Review Paper on Data Clustering

Class Exercise - See ODM Data Clustering Exercises

Class Exercise - Work on Assignment

14th April

No Class -Work on Assignment  

21st April

 Review & Wrap-up Methodology for Evaluating and Selecting Data Mining Software - Paper

Assignment Due on Monday 21st April @ 10pm

You will need to submit your assignment using WebCT

28th April

Revision / Self Study

 
5th May Revision / Self Study  
12th May

Exams

 
   
 
 
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