Option Area(s):

Management of Information Systems (MIS)
MTM Option (Part 1 MIS)
E-Business Option

Course Description :

Data mining is the non trivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown, and potentially useful information from data William J. Frawley, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and Christopher J. Matheus. Variety of techniques to identify nuggets of information or decision-making knowledge in bodies of data, and extracting these in such a way that they can be put to use in the area such as decision support, prediction, forecasting and estimation. The data is often voluminous, but as it stands of low value as no direct use can be made of it; it is the hidden information in the data that is useful.

Prerequisites :

MGMT 67000, 67100.