BIT326 Data Warehousing and Mining

Purpose
This course is designed to introduce the core concepts of data warehousing and data mining, their
techniques, implementation, benefits, and outcome expectations from this new technology.

Expected Learning Outcome

Students who are successful in this course will be able to:
i. Understand the fundamental concepts of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
ii. Demonstrate understanding of data mining algorithms, methods, and tools
iii. Be able to efficiently design and manage data storages using data warehousing, OLAP, and
data mining techniques
iv. Select and apply appropriate data mining techniques for different real life applications.

Content
Data warehousing overview and Concepts: Need for data warehousing, basic elements of data
warehousing, Trends in data warehousing, Architecture and Infrastructure: Architectural
components, Infrastructure and metadata, Data Design and Data Representation: Principles of
dimensional modelling, Dimensional modelling advanced topics, data extraction, transformation
and loading, data quality. Information Access and Mode of Delivery: Matching information to
classes of users, OLAP in data warehouse, Data warehousing and the web. Implementation And
Maintenance: Physical design process, data warehouse deployment, growth and maintenance. Data
mining: Classification of data mining techniques, Discovery and analysis of patterns, trends, and
deviations. Data mining models: decision trees, genetic algorithms, neural nets, etc. Data pre-
processing, Data mining primitives, languages and systems, Data mining Algorithms. Descriptive
data mining: characterization and comparison, Association analysis, Classification and prediction,
Cluster analysis: Clustering, Enabling data mining through data warehouse. Knowledge
Discovery: KDD Process, Web Mining: Web Content Mining, Web Structure Mining, Web Usage
mining. Data marts, Multidimensional databases, mining complex types of data, Applications and
trends in data mining

Mode of Delivery
Lectures, tutorials, group discussions, research and presentation

Instructional Material and/or Equipment

Audio visual equipment, chalkboard, computer simulation software, computer programming tools

Assessment
CATs……………………………………………………………………………………..30%
Final Semester examination……...………………………………………………………70%

Core References
Berson, A., Smith, S. J. Smith, (1997), Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and OLAP, McGraw-
Hill, Inc. New York, NY, USA
Kimball, R., Ross, M., (2013), The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional
Modelling 3rd Edition
Ponniah, P., (2001), Data Warehousing Fundamentals: A Comprehensive Guide for IT
Professionals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Other References
Pang-Ning T., Steinbach, M. and Kumar, V., (2007), Introduction To Data Mining, Person
Education
Soman K.P., Shyam D. and Ajay V., (2006), Insight into Data mining Theory and Practice, Easter
Economy Edition, Prentice Hall of India
Rajeev P., (2008), Principles of implementation of data warehousing, Firewall Media

Electronic Material
International Journal of Information Technology and Management eISSN: 1741-5179
www.inderscience.com/ijitm
Journal of Information Technology, eISSN: 1466-4437
https://www.researchgate.net/journal/1466-4437_Journal_of_Information_Technology