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Business Intelligence and

Decision support systems

Preliminary
Eyob N. (PhD)
[email protected]
Objectives
 Understand the trends in data mining and analytics
 learn how to analyze the business needs for knowledge discovery in
order to create competitive advantages
 comprehend and practice how to apply data mining technologies
appropriately in order to realize their real business value.
 Be exposed to data analysis tools and architectures
Topics/chapters
 Fundamental concepts and the need for business intelligence, data
mining and its flavors , big data analysis
 DM applications, DA models and frameworks
 Data and data warehousing
 Data mining techniques
 Association rule mining,
 Classification and
 Cluster analysis
 Others : opinion mining, web mining…
 Current trends in data analytics/data mining
Schedule and course plan
 Major topics will be covered through lecture
 Resources will be indicated and/or provided
 Students will do all their assessments in groups (group membership should
be 4-6 students )
 Form a group and bring/submit your group when coming for next session
Assessment
 Article review – (20% )---Group work
 Student will also be engaged on course project for some practical work
(30%)
 Final exam 50%
More details
 Article review
 Find three published articles (one of which should be locally done) on a specific topic (student
performance prediction, Heart attack risk prediction …..
 Present on the problem addressed, methodology used, results/findings claimed and your
perspective about the work
 Submit the presentation to [email protected]
 Presentation (every session, sequentially after completing topic two.)
 Project - Document submission based on template
 Use template from the telegram group
 You may Use data from any where on the web like –
 real world data OR
 http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/
 https://favtutor.com/blogs/data-mining-projects
 http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/dme/html/datasets0405.html
What is expected from students
 Be Self motivated and have good time management
 Taking responsibility to learn and be honest in all tasks
 Submit assignments and all assessments on time
 Attend all virtual classes
 Visit telegram group regularly
 Read and come with questions – topics planed for a week
 Post any questions on telegram and/or use short message service of the
virtual class.
 Use your full name for any communication
References

 Textbook:
 None, but reference book(s) and/or articles/papers are provided
through the course website.
Thank you

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