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This document outlines the syllabus for the course "Data Mining and Business Intelligence". The course aims to teach students the basics of data warehousing and data mining. It covers topics like data warehousing components, ETL processes, dimensional modeling, OLAP operations, data mining techniques like classification, clustering, association rule mining and tools. The course is divided into 4 units - introduction to data warehousing, dimensional modeling and OLAP, data mining basics and major techniques, and clustering, association rules and data mining tools. Students will be evaluated based on objectives/short answer questions and longer questions from each unit.

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This document outlines the syllabus for the course "Data Mining and Business Intelligence". The course aims to teach students the basics of data warehousing and data mining. It covers topics like data warehousing components, ETL processes, dimensional modeling, OLAP operations, data mining techniques like classification, clustering, association rule mining and tools. The course is divided into 4 units - introduction to data warehousing, dimensional modeling and OLAP, data mining basics and major techniques, and clustering, association rules and data mining tools. Students will be evaluated based on objectives/short answer questions and longer questions from each unit.

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DATA MINING AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Paper Code: ETCS-413 L T/P C


Paper: Data Mining and Business Intelligence 3 0 3

INSTRUCTIONS TO PAPER SETTERS: MAXIMUM MARKS: 75


1. Question No. 1 should be compulsory and cover the entire syllabus. This question should have objective or
short answer type questions. It should be of 25 marks.
2. Apart from Question No. 1, rest of the paper shall consist of four units as per the syllabus. Every unit
should have two questions. However, student may be asked to attempt only 1 question from each unit. Each
question should be of 12.5 marks

Objective: The objective of the paper is to facilitate the student with the basics of Data Warehouse and Data
Mining, to study algorithms and computational paradigms that allow computers to find patterns and regularities
in databases, perform prediction and forecasting, and generally improve their performance through interaction
with data.

UNIT I
Introduction to Data Warehousing: Overview, Difference between Database System and Data Warehouse, The
Compelling Need for data warehousing, Data warehouse The building Blocks: Defining Features, data
warehouses and data marts, overview of the components, Three tier architecture, Metadata in the data warehouse.
Data pre-processing: Data cleaning, Data transformation ETL Process. ETL tools.
Defining the business requirements: Dimensional analysis, information packages a new concept, requirements
gathering methods, requirements definition: scope and content.
[T1][No. of Hrs: 12]
UNIT II
Principles of Dimensional Modeling: Objectives, From Requirements to data design, Multi Dimensional Data
Model, Schemas: the STAR schema, the Snowflake schema, fact constellation schema.
OLAP in the Data Warehouse: Demand for Online Analytical Processing, limitations of other analysis methods-
OLAP is the answer, OLAP definitions and rules, OLAP characteristics, major features and functions, hyper
cubes.
OLAP Operations: Drill-down and roll-up, slice-and-dice , pivot or rotation, OLAP models, overview of
variations, the MOLAP model, the ROLAP model, the DOLAP model, ROLAP versus MOLAP, OLAP
implementation considerations. Query and Reporting, Executive Information Systems (EIS), Data Warehouse and
Business Strategy.
[T1, R4][No. of Hrs. 11]
UNIT III
Data Mining Basics: What is Data Mining, Data Mining Defined, The knowledge discovery process (KDD
Process), Data Mining Applications- The Business Context of Data Mining, Data Mining for Process
Improvement, Data Mining as a Research Tool, Data Mining for Marketing, Benefits of data mining,
Major Data Mining Techniques: Classification and Prediction: Issues Regarding Classification and
Prediction, Classification by Decision Tree Induction, KNN Algorithm.
[T2, R4][No. of Hrs: 11]
UNIT IV
Cluster detection, K- means Algorithm, Outlier Analysis, memory-based reasoning, link analysis, Mining
Association Rules in Large Databases: Association Rule Mining, genetic algorithms, neural networks.
Data mining tools.
[T2, R3][No. of Hrs: 10]
Text Books:
[T1] Paul Raj Poonia, Fundamentals of Data Warehousing, John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
[T2] Kamber and Han, Data Mining Concepts and Techniques, Hart Court India P. Ltd. Elsevier
Publications Second Edition, 2001
Reference Books:
[R1] W. H. Inmon, Building the operational data store, 2nd Ed., John Wiley, 1999.
[R2] Data Warehousing, BPB Publications, 2004.
[R3] Pang- Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, Viach, Vipin Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining, Pearson
[R4] Shmueli, Data Mining for Business Intelligence : Concepts, Techniques and Applications in Microsoft
Excel with XLMiner,Wiley Publications

Scheme and Syllabi for B. Tech-CSE, 1st year (Common to all branches) w.e.f batch 2014-15 and (2nd, 3rd & 4th years) w.e.f batch 2013-14
approved in the 22nd BOS of USET on 30th June, 2014 and approved in the 37th AC Sub Committee Meeting held on 10th July, 2014.

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