Association Analysis
Association Analysis
COURSE CODE: COM 428 COURSE NAME: DATA WAREHOUSING AND MINING
Objectives
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
i) Design a data warehouse or data mart to present information needed by management in a form that is
usable for management clients.
ii) Implement a high-quality data warehouse or data mart.
iii) Effectively administer a corporate data resource in such a way that it will truly meet management’s
needs.
iv) Evaluate standards and new technologies to determine their potential impact on information resources.
Course Content
Introduction to Data Mining, Data Pre-processing, Data Warehouse and OLAP technology, Mining frequent
patterns, Classification & Prediction and Cluster analysis. Data mining definition, databases, machine learning,
algorithms, information retrieval, and statistics. Data warehousing process data pre-processing, data
integration, on-line analytical processing (OLAP) tools for the interactive analysis of multidimensional data,
effective data mining. data warehousing and data mining techniques and their tools.
Teaching Equipment/Materials
The course delivery requires audio-visual devices, computers with internet services, journals, newspapers,
chalk/pens, whiteboard markers, whiteboards/ blackboards, flip charts and learning centres
Assessment
Continuous Assessment Tests (CATs): 20%
Practical Based Assessment 10%
End of Semester Written Examinations: 70%