IS 4540 - Data Mining

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Business Majors: Sophomore GPA Requirement and IS 3580; Non-business Majors: IS 3580 and permission of Coles College.
Data mining aims at finding useful regularities and patterns in large data sets. In this course students will learn how this interdisciplinary field brings together techniques from databases, statistics, machine learning, and information retrieval. This course covers major data mining techniques including association mining, classification, clustering, trend analysis, prediction, fraud detection, and their applications in e-commerce, CRM, health care and others. Tools like SQL Server 2005 business intelligence toolkit will be used to create analytical applications.