IST 6070 - Data Warehousing and Mining

(3 units)

Data is often touted as a hidden and most powerful asset that an organization has. This course teaches students to store data and analyze patterns and trends in the data. Whereas databases store useful data and report on known questions, data warehousing techniques handle large volumes of data with especially crafted data structures and data warehousing tools. The architectures and components of data warehouses will be taught in this course. In addition, students will be taught techniques to conduct multidimensional analysis of data stored in warehouses. Examples of techniques for data mining that the student will be exposed to include statistical techniques, neural network techniques, MOLAP and ROLAP approaches, and market basket analysis.