DWDM

SYLLABUS

UNIT – I

Data mining: Inttroduction, Data mining – on what kind of data, data mining functionalities – what kind of patterns to be mined, Classification of data mining systems, data mining task primitives, integration of a data mining systems with a database or data warehouse systems, major issues in data mining.

Data preprocessing:Descriptive data summarization, data cleaning, data integration andtransformation, data reduction, data descretization and concept hierarchygeneration.

UNIT – II

Data warehouse and OLAP technology: What is data warehouse, A multidimensional data model, data warehouse architecture, data warehouse implementation, data warehouse usage,  OLAP, OLAM

Mining frequent patterns,association and correlation, efficient and scalable frequent itemset miningmethods, From association mining to correlation analysis.

UNIT – III

Classification and prediction: Introduction, issues, classification by decision tree induction, rule based classification, classification by back propagation, lazy learners, other classification methods, Prediction: accuracy and error measures, evaluating the accuracy of a classifier or predictor.

Cluster Analysis: Types ofdata in cluster analysis, a categorization of major clustering methods,partitioning methods.

UNIT – IV

Mining complex types of data: Multidimensional analysis and descriptive mining of complex data objects, mining spatial database, multimedia database, mining world wide web.

Applications and trends in data mining: Data miningapplications, data mining system products and research prototypes, socialimpact of data mining, trends in data mining.