CSC 322 Data Warehousing and Data Mining

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Data Warehousing and Data Mining (CSC 322)

Added on 2022-01-21

CSC 322 Data Warehousing and Data Mining

Data Warehousing and Data Mining (CSC 322)

Added on 2022-01-21

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CSC 322 Data Warehousing and
Data Mining
Dr. Umair Abdullah

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Reference Books
– W. H. Inmon, Building the Data Warehouse
(Second Edition), John Wiley & Sons Inc., NY.
– A. Abdullah, “Data Warehousing for beginners:
Concepts & Issues” (First Edition).
– Paulraj Ponniah, Data Warehousing Fundamentals,
John Wiley & Sons Inc., NY.
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Week 1
1. Introduction
2. Course Outline
3. Data vs. Knowledge
4. Knowledge Representation
5. Data Mining Definition
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Data Mining Definition
• Define Data mining in your own words
• Subject of Computer Science concerned with
extraction of knowledge from huge volumes
of data
– Knowledge discovery from data
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Why this course?
• The world is changing (actually changed), either
change or be left behind.
• Missing the opportunities or going in the wrong
direction has prevented us from growing.
• What is the right direction?
• Harnessing the data, in a knowledge driven
economy.
• Business World, Past and Today
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Evolution
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Data Mining
• Big Data
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Data MiningArtificial
Intelligence
Knowledge
KR

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Data vs. Knowledge
• Data: Raw facts and figures organized for
efficient updating and retrieval
• Knowledge ??
– Example of a book
– Hafiz e Quran
– Data Cell
• Usability is the difference between Data and
Knowledge
• Usability also depends upon processor
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Knowledge Source: Real World
• Immense amount of data exists in world
• Real world is source of knowledge
• Entities, attributes, physical and logical
objects, procedures, processes etc.
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