DADIDM

Introduction to Data Mining

LEVEL 
Basic / Intermediate / Advanced

COURSE LENGTH 
1.5 Days
3 Half Days

CREDITS

Course Description

During this workshop, data mining key concepts focusing on data cleansing and basic modeling approaches will be introduced using various examples and hands on exercises.  The workshop is designed as a practical workshop and learning by doing is a key component.  As such, participants will be asked to work on various in class exercises that will be completed during both sessions.  After each exercise, a review will be conducted offering comments and suggestions for improvement.

After this course, participants will be familiar with key data mining concepts to evaluate the data sets in a manner to extract customer knowledge.  This workshop is about theory and approach.  It will provide attendees an understanding of data mining and how to leverage key concepts when approaching data sets within your company.  This workshop is not a statistics course or a data modeling course.

Learning Objectives:

  • Be able to articulate the data mining process

  • Understand ways to prepare the data set for analysis

  • Understand data exploration techniques