This course examines the design of databases and data warehouses and their use for data mining; and investigates associated issues. Topics may include: relational theory and conceptual modelling; privacy and security; statistical databases; distributed databases; data warehousing; data cleaning and integration; and data mining concepts and techniques.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
On completion of this course, the students should have gained a good understanding of basic concepts, principles and techniques in data warehousing and data mining. Specifically, the students are able to perform the following tasks.
- Understand fundamental concepts of data warehousing and OLAP techniques
- Apply data-cubing techniques and conduct multi-dimensional data analysis
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Demonstrate advanced knowledge on the design and implementation of data warehouses
Develop in-depth understanding of fundamental data mining algorithms
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Apply data mining techniques for knowledge discovery
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Perform practical data mining using open source tools
Indicative Assessment
- Two assignments (40 marks)
- Online quizzes (5 marks)
- Final Exam (55 marks)
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Workload
Thirty one-hour lectures and six two-hour tutorials
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
The following text book will be used for this course:
- Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, and Jian Pei,Data Mining:Concepts and Techniques, 3rd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011 http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/~hanj/bk3/
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Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
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- Student Contribution Band:
- 2
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2016 | $3276 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2016 | $4368 |
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First Semester
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
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| 2846 | 15 Feb 2016 | 26 Feb 2016 | 31 Mar 2016 | 27 May 2016 | In Person | N/A |