13MCA442 Data Warehousing & Data Mining syllabus for MCA


Unit-1 Data Warehousing and OLAP 8 hours

Data Warehouse basic concepts, Data Warehouse Modeling, Data Cube and OLAP

Unit-2 Data Mining 6 hours

Introduction, What is Data Mining, Motivating Challenges, Data Mining Tasks,Which technologies are used, which kinds of applications are targeted by Data Mining

Unit-3 Data Mining 6 hours

Types of Data, Data Mining Applications, Data Preprocessing

Unit-4 Association Analysis: Basic Concepts and Algorithms 12 hours

Frequent Item set Generation, Rule Generation, Compact Representation of Frequent Itemsets, Alternative methods for generating Frequent Item sets, FP Growth Algorithm,Evaluation of Association Patterns

Unit-5 Classification 12 hours

Basics, G e n e r a l a p p r o a c h t o s o l v e c l a s s i f i c a t i o n problem, D e c i s i o nTrees, R u l e B a s e d Classifiers, Nearest Neighbor Classifiers. Bayesian Classifiers,Estimating Predictive accuracy of classification methods, Improving accuracy ofclarification methods, Evaluation criteria for classification methods, Multiclass Problem.

Unit-6 Clustering Techniques 8 hours

Overview, Features of cluster analysis, Types of Data and Computing Distance, Types ofCluster Analysis Methods, Partitional Methods, Hierarchical Methods, Density BasedMethods, Quality and Validity of Cluster Analysis

Unit-7 Outlier Analysis 4 hours

Outlier detection methods, Statistical Approaches, Clustering based applications,Classification based approached

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