INSS 655 - Data Warehousing and Mining

3 Credits

755 Prerequisite(s): INSS 550 This course provides a comprehensive study of the business potential of data warehousing, including techniques for designing and maintaining large data warehouses as well as how to effectively use data warehouses for business advantage. Topics include OLAP, star schemas, data integration, data cleaning, maintenance of views in the presence of updates to the sources, and query processing of warehouses, data mining techniques such as classification, clustering, association rules, mining of time-series and complex data. The course presents a current and futuristic view of decision support data repositories, and discusses several successful applications of data warehousing.