BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE & DATA MANAGEMENT
Dr. Emiel Caron & Dr. Ekaterini Ioannou & Dr. Poonacha Medappa
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LECTURE 1: INTRODUCTION TO BI AND DATABASE SYSTEMS ........................................................................ 4
1. INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ........................................................................................................... 4
1.1. Business Intelligence (BI) vs. Business Analytics (BA). ........................................................................ 4
1.2. Definition ............................................................................................................................................ 4
1.3. Business Intelligence architecture ...................................................................................................... 5
2. INTRODUCTION TO DATABASES ............................................................................................................................ 7
Text 1. Database systems: design, implementation, and management – Carlos Coronel, Steven Morris &
Peter Rob.......................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1. Database systems ............................................................................................................................. 32
2.2. Relational databases ........................................................................................................................ 32
2.3. Trends in the database world ........................................................................................................... 33
3. READING: DATA WAREHOUSE DESIGN- MODERN PRINCIPLES AND METHODOLOGIES ................................................. 34
LECTURE 2: SQL & DATA WAREHOUSING ................................................................................................... 45
1. INTRODUCTION STRUCTURED QUERY LANGUAGE (SQL) ........................................................................................ 45
1.1. Data types ......................................................................................................................................... 45
1.2. Join types .......................................................................................................................................... 45
2. INTRODUCTION TO DATA WAREHOUSING............................................................................................................. 46
2.1. Why do we need a separate data warehouse? ................................................................................ 47
2.2. DW framework: components............................................................................................................ 47
2.3. DW framework: Architecture............................................................................................................ 50
2.4. Data warehouse architecture variants ............................................................................................. 51
LECTURE 3: OLAP BUSINESS DATABASES & BUSINESS DASHBOARDS ........................................................... 57
, 4. BUSINESS DASHBOARDS ................................................................................................................................... 72
4.1. Two theoretical perspectives: ........................................................................................................... 72
LECTURE 4: DATA MINING INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 74
1. PYTHON REFRESHER ........................................................................................................................................ 74
2. DECISION MAKING WITH BIG DATA ..................................................................................................................... 75
3. DATA MINING METHODS ................................................................................................................................. 75
4. DATA ........................................................................................................................................................... 75
4.1. Data and types of variables .............................................................................................................. 76
4.2. Sources of data ................................................................................................................................. 77
5. DATA MINING PROCESS(ES)—OVERVIEW OF THE STEPS INVOLVED IN DATA MINING .................................................... 77
Step 1: Develop an understanding of the purpose of the data mining project ............................................. 77
Step 2: Obtain the dataset to be used in the analysis ................................................................................... 77
Step 3: Explore, clean, and preprocess the data ............................................................................................ 78
Step 4: Reduce the data dimension, if necessary........................................................................................... 78
Step 5: Determine the data mining task ........................................................................................................ 78
Step 6: Partition the data (for supervised tasks) ........................................................................................... 78
Step 7: Choose the data mining technique(s) ................................................................................................ 78
Step 8: Use algorithms to perform the task ................................................................................................... 78
Step 9: Interpret the results of the algorithms .............................................................................................. 78
Step 10: Deploy the model ............................................................................................................................. 79
5.1. SEMMA methodology ....................................................................................................................... 79
5.2. CRISP-DM .......................................................................................................................................... 79
, 1.2. Manhattan Distance ......................................................................................................................... 92
2. CHOOSING THE NUMBER OF NEIGHBORS, I.E., VALUE K .......................................................................................... 92
3. COMPUTING PREDICTION (FOR A NUMERICAL OUTCOME) ....................................................................................... 93
1. MAIN PROCESSING........................................................................................................................................ 104
1.1. Induction (with a Greedy Strategy)................................................................................................. 105
2. PROS AND CONS OF DECISION TREES ................................................................................................................. 109
LECTURE 10: ASSOCIATION RULES ........................................................................................................... 110
1. RULES ........................................................................................................................................................ 110
2. TWO-STAGE PROCESS.................................................................................................................................... 111
2.1. Generation of frequent itemsets → Apriory algorithm .................................................................. 111
2.2. Selecting the strong rules i.e., criteria for judging the strength of the rules.................................. 112
3. ALTERNATIVE DATA REPRESENTATION (TO SPEED UP EXECUTION) ........................................................................... 113
1. CLUSTER ANALYSIS ........................................................................................................................................ 114
1.1. Issues for clustering ........................................................................................................................ 114
2. REPRESENTATION & DISTANCE........................................................................................................................ 115
2.1. Distance .......................................................................................................................................... 115
3. TWO TYPES OF CLUSTERING ............................................................................................................................ 117
3.1. Hierarchical clustering .................................................................................................................... 117
3.2. Partitional Algorithms: k means ..................................................................................................... 120
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, LECTURE 1: INTRODUCTION TO BI AND DATABASE SYSTEMS
1. INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Data Information Knowledge
Methods of BI:
1. Descriptive analytics: use data to understand past and present.
Retrospective
2. Diagnostic analytics: explain why something happened.
3. Predictive analytics: predict future behavior based on past
performance.
Prospective
4. Prescriptive analytics: make decisions or recommendations to
achieve the best performance.
1.1. BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (BI) VS. BUSINESS ANALYTICS (BA).
These terms are often fighting for dominance, distinguished by the following view:
- BI = data warehousing + descriptive analytics
- BA = predictive + prescriptive analytics
However, the prof thinks they are too similar to really be separated, as both are examples of a Decision
Support System (DSS).
1.2. DEFINITION
= Transforming data into meaningful information/knowledge to support business decision-
making. (general)
= BI is an umbrella term that combines the processes, technologies, and tools needed to
transform data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into plans that
drive profitable business action. (process view)
= BI is information and knowledge that enables business decision-making. (output view)
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