IS 990 - Special Topics in Information Systems

Special Topics Data Mining: Modern computational technologies using the internet and electronic commerce allow business organizations to capture, store and warehouse vast quantities of data. Data mining is concerned with the task of extracting from this data, information and knowledge that can be used to help an organization function more effectively. Furthermore governmental agencies, particularly those interested in homeland security, are using data mining to help in many tasks required for national security. In this course we shall discuss of a number of the state of the art technologies that are being used in data mining. In addition to techniques for mining data tools for mining text will also be discussed.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: MBA 580