Chapter 1

Introduction to Data Warehousing

Lifecycle and types of data, data warehousing concepts, operational vs warehouse database, multidimensional model, OLAP operations.

Chapter 2

Introduction to Data Mining

Motivation, DM system, functionalities, KDD process, data types, statistical descriptions, issues in data mining.

Chapter 3

Data Preprocessing

Data cleaning, integration, transformation, reduction, discretization, concept hierarchy generation.

Chapter 4

Data Cube Technology

Data cube computation methods, cube materialization, full cube, iceberg cube, closed cube, shell cube.

Chapter 5

Mining Frequent Patterns

Frequent itemsets, market basket analysis, association rules, single/multi-dimensional and multilevel rules.

Chapter 6

Classification and Prediction

Classification vs prediction, learning and testing models, decision trees (ID3), Bayesian classifiers.

Chapter 7

Cluster Analysis

Types of data, similarity measures, k-means, k-means++, mini-batch k-means, k-medoids, hierarchical clustering methods.

Chapter 8

Graph Mining and Social Network Analysis

Graph mining concepts, beam search, inductive logic programming, link mining, social network metrics.

Chapter 9

Mining Spatial, Multimedia, Text and Web Data

Spatial association, multimedia mining, similarity search, text mining, web mining techniques.