Course details

Why do people buy ice in winter? Why do people buy crisps and pencils together? Given enough data, any strange question can have an answer, and more importantly these observations, extracted from big data, can inform important business decisions and opportunities. This course is aimed at learners with no previous experience with data mining.

Programme Aims and Objectives

This module aims to introduce the learner to the area of data mining and predictive analytics by providing real world examples of problems that can be encountered and how they can be solved using currently available software packages.

On completion of this course, students will have acquired the skills to:

  • Assess the needs of a customer’s data mining and prediction needs
  • Assess available data sources to utilise
  • Develop a robust process to clean data and extract quality data
  • Run leading edge software on the data to identify patterns and predict outcomes
  • Document and visualize the findings to inform the business.

Programme Content

The programme is delivered through tutor led classes, concentrating on labs and hands on skills.

Topics Covered:

  • Introduction to data mining life cycle
  • Data pre-processing & quality assessment, filtering noise and data cleansing
  • Feature selection
  • Integrating data sources into your data mining process
  • How data mining can be applied to business scenarios
  • Process modelling RapidMiner
Updated on 08 November, 2015

About College of Computer Training

theylcome to the College of Computing Technology (CCT). As one of Ireland’s leading third-level independent colleges in the areas of Computing and Business studies, and with a comprehensive range of part-time, full-time, corporate, and semester abroad ctheirses within these areas, they trust you will find a programme of education and training to suit ytheir needs.

CCT affords a personal touch to its students, with small class sizes promoting an interactive learning atmosphere, and an excellent student service. they foster a dynamic, student-centred, international learning environment, which promotes inpidual potential. CCT provides QQI (Quality and Qualifications Ireland, incorporating the former HETAC and FETAC) validated programmes in further and higher education, at levels 6 and 7 on the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ). CCT also provides a number of other ctheirses aligned to levels 5-9 on the NFQ.

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