• Data Mining – From data warehousing to data mining. – Data pre-processing and data mining life-cycle. – Association and sequence analysis; classification and clustering. – Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, and Genetic Algorithms. – Mining Complex Data. • OLAP mining; spatial data mining; text mining; time-series data mining; web mining; visual data mining. • Data warehousing. – Introduction; basic concepts of data warehousing; data warehouse vs. Operational DB; data warehouse and the industry. – Architecture and design; two-tier and threetier architecture; star schema and snowflake schema; data capturing, replication, transformation and cleansing. – Data characteristics; metadata; static and dynamic data; derived data. – Data Marts; OLAP; data mining; data warehouse administration
