COSC 831 - Advanced Data Warehousing and Data Mining

3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): COSC 531 This course covers the fundamentals of data warehousing architecture and issues involving planning, constructing and maintaining a data warehouse. The course introduces the concept of data mining and how it relates to data warehousing. The specific topics covered include the logical design of a data warehouse, data staging area and extract-transform-load processing. The course discusses multidimensional analysis using OLAP techniques, and coverage of knowledge discovery processing including common data modeling techniques