Tentative Course Plan

Name of Course Business Intelligence and Data Mining (BIDM)

Faculty Suresh A
Course Code BA006E
Level MBA
Stream Business Analytics
Credits 3
Total Hours 24
Pre-requisite Nil

Grading Policy

Relative Grading

Evaluation Policy

Assessment Percentage of final grade

Midterm Exam 30%
Project Work/Presentation 25%
Case Study Evaluation 5%
End Exam 40%
Total 100%

Course Plan

Lecture Topic
Number
1 Introduction to the course, Business Intelligence (BI) definitions and
concepts
2 Trends in BI, An overview of BI technologies, Competing on analytics,
Realities that jeopardize business survival
3 Case Study Discussion 1

4 Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) Vs Online Analytical Processing

(OLAP)
5 Data warehousing fundamentals, dimension tables and fact tables, schemas
(star, snowflake, galaxy)
6 Multidimensional analysis
7 OLAP architectures (ROLAP, MOLAP, HOLAP)
8 Data warehouses – characteristics and goals
9 Different approaches to build data warehouses
12 Data warehousing – Extraction, Transformation and Loading
13 OLAP architectures (ROLAP, MOLAP, HOLAP)
15 Case study discussion 2
16 Introduction to data mining, Success stories, Different learning schemes in
data mining applications
17 Introduction to programming in Python
18 Programming in Python
19 Programming in Python
20 Pre-processing of data and missing value imputation
21 Introduction to Weka, arff file format, Introduction to classification using
Weka
22 Classification algorithms – Zero R and One R, Naive Bayes algorithm, zero
frequency problem
23 Decision trees, constructing and visualizing decision trees, J48 algorithm,
Computing information gain, concept of entropy
24 Mining association rules, concepts of support and confidence, Clustering

Textbooks
1. Business Intelligence and Analytics, Efraim Turban, Ramesh Shardha and Durson
Delen, Pearson India, 2018.
2. Business Intelligence Data Mining and Optimization for Decision Making, Carlo
Vercellis, Wiley Publication, 2013.
References
1. Business Analytics: The Science of Data-Driven Decision Making, U Dinesh
Kumar,Wiley.
2. The Data Warehouse Toolkit:The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling- Ralph
Kimball and Margy Ross, Third Edition, Wiley Publication, 2013
3. Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber and Jian Pei. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques,
3rd ed. The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems