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Business Intelligence and Applications

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Martinenghi D.

Course director

Humbatova N.

Assistant

Description

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The course develops a working knowledge of the principles, architectures, and tools for Business Intelligence.

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The first part of the course addresses core topics, such as enterprise data integration, visualization, and data mining. The second part gives an outlook on emerging data architectures, including social network structures and Big Data analytics.

Course outline:

  • Data management architectures.
  • OLAP and OLTP.
  • Data warehouse architecture and design.
  • Data Mining: clustering, classification, association rules.
  • Visualization.
  • Networks: models and centrality measures.
  • A selection of topics among Big Data, NoSQL databases, ranking.

LEARNING METHODS

Besides traditional classroom-taught lectures, the course include discussions with students, live demos of tools, presentation of groupwork, and homework with individual assignments.

 

EXAMINATION INFORMATION
The evaluation consists of:

  • a written midterm test
  • a written final test
  • several small project assignments.

RECOMMENDED COURSES

  • Databases

 

REFERENCES
Main references:

  • Class handouts.

Suggested reading:

  • Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques; Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, and Jian Pei, 3rd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.
  • Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World, David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • Hadoop: The Definitive Guide: Storage and Analysis at Internet Scale, Tom White, 4th Edition, O'Reilly.
  • Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics. Bill Franks, John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

Further reading, in the form of books and/or scientific articles, will be suggested in class.

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