The course, data mining and data warehousing course available for students studying towards acquiring the Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology.
The overall aims of this course is to introduce you to the concepts of data mining and data warehousing. Other topics that will be discussed include the data mining problems, application of data mining, commercial tools of data mining, knowledge discovery, architecture of data warehousing, data marts, data warehousing lifecycle, data modelling, building of data warehouse, OLAP, MOLAP, ROLAP, data warehousing and future views.
For easy study and assimilation, the book is written in an easy-to-read and lingo free manner. The study material is divided into three modules namely: concepts of data mining, data mining and trends, and data warehouse concepts.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS COURSE
The overall aims and objectives of this course is to provide guidance on what you should achieve in the course of your studies. Each unit also has its own objectives which state specifically what you should achieve in the corresponding unit. To evaluate your progress continuously, you are expected to refer to the overall course aims and objectives as well as the corresponding unit objectives upon the completion of each unit.