ECMM 6014

Data warehousing and data mining are two emerging technologies which will have a profound effect on the role information plays in organizations. A data warehouse is a repository of data taken from multiple sources that supports querying and analysis tools. Data mining, the process of knowledge discovery from data in a data warehouse, is typically used for strategic planning and has great economic potential for organizations. This course covers key issues in data warehouse architecture, design of data warehouse schemas, design of metadata repositories, the creation, development and maintenance of warehouses, as well as tools and techniques for querying, analyzing and mining the warehouse data. Data mining techniques such as statistical and non-statistical supervised and unsupervised learning methods will be applied to problems drawn from the medical and business world.