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Course details
Vskills Data Mining and Warehousing Professional assesses the candidate for a company’s data mining and warehousing needs. The certification tests the candidates on various areas in data mining and warehousing which include knowledge of planning, managing, designing, implementing, supporting, maintaining and analyzing the organization’s data warehouse and covering data mining and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP).Why should one take this certification?
This certification is intended for professionals and graduates wanting to excel in their chosen areas. It is also well suited for those who are already working and would like to take certification for further career progression.
Earning Vskills Data Mining and Warehousing Professional Certification can help candidate differentiate in today's competitive job market, broaden their employment opportunities by displaying their advanced skills, and result in higher earning potential.
Who will benefit from taking this certification?
Job seekers looking to find employment in IT department of various companies, students generally wanting to improve their skill set and make their CV stronger and existing employees looking for a better role can prove their employers the value of their skills through this certification.
Companies that hire Vskills Certified Data Mining and Warehousing Professional
Data Mining and Warehousing professional are in great demand. Companies specializing in Integration Services are constantly hiring knowledgeable professionals. Various banks, telecom and IT companies also need data mining and warehousing professionals for data management and analysis.
Table of Contents
DATA WAREHOUSING INTRODUCTION
- Introduction
- Meaning of Data Warehousing
- History of Data Warehousing
- Introduction
- Data Warehousing
- Operational vs. Informational Systems
- Characteristics of Data Warehousing
- Introduction
- Data Warehousing and OLTP Systems
- Processes in Data Warehousing OLTP
- What is OLAP?
- Who uses OLAP and WHY?
- Multi-Dimensional View s
- Benefits of OLAP
- Introduction
- The Data Warehouse Model
- Data Modeling for Data Warehouses
- Introduction
- Structure of a Data Warehouse
- Data Warehouse Physical Architectures
- Principles of a Data Warehousing
- Introduction
- Operational Systems
- “ Warehousing” Data outside the Operational Systems
- Integrating Data from more than one Operational System
- Differences between Transaction and Analysis Processes
- Data is mostly Non-volatile
- Data saved for longer periods than in transaction systems
- Logical Transformation of Operational Data
- Structured Extensible Data Model
- Data Warehouse model aligns with the business structure
- Transformation of the Operational State Information
- De-normalization of Data
- Static Relationships in Historical Data
- Physical Transformation of Operational Data
- Operational terms transformed into uniform business terms
- Introduction
- Building a Data Warehouse
- Nine Decisions in the design of a Data Warehouse
- Introduction
- Data Warehouse Application
- Introduction
- Need of a Data Warehouse
- Business Considerations: Return on Investment
- Organizational Issues
- Design Considerations
- Data content
- Metadata
- Data Distribution
- Tools
- Performance Considerations
- Introduction
- Technical Considerations
- Hardware Platforms
- Balanced Approach
- Optimal hardware architecture for parallel queryscalability
- Data warehouse and DBMS Specialization
- Communications Infrastructure
- Implementation Considerations
- Access Tools
- Introduction
- Benefits of Data Warehousing
- Problems with Data Warehousing
- Criteria for a Data Warehouse
- Introduction
- Project Management Process
- The Scope Statement
- Project Planning
- Project Scheduling
- Software Project Planning
- Critical Path Method
- Decision Making
- Introduction
- Work Breakdow n Structure (WBS)
- How to build a WBS (a serving suggestion)
- To Create Work Breakdown Structure
- From WBS to Activity Plan
- Estimating Time
- Introduction
- Project Estimation
- Analyzing Probability & Risk
- Introduction
- Risk Analysis
- Risk Management
- Risk Analysis
- Managing Risks: Internal & External
- Internal and External Risks
- Critical Path Analysis
- Introduction
- Data Mining
- Data Mining Background
- Inductive Learning
- Statistics
- Machine Learning
- Introduction
- What is Data Mining?
- Data Mining: Definitions
- KDD vs. Data Mining
- Stages OF KDD
- Machine Learning vs. Data Mining
- Data Mining vs. DBMS
- Data Warehouse
- Statistical Analysis
- Introduction
- Elements and uses of Data Mining
- Relationships & Patterns
- Data Mining Problems/Issues
- Goals of Data Mining and Know ledge Discovery
- Data, Information and Knowledge
- What can Data Mining do?
- How does Data Mining Work?
- Data Mining in a Nutshell
- Data Mining
- Data Mining Models
- Discovery of Association Rules
- Discovery of Classification Rules
- Data Mining Problems/Issues
- Other Mining Problems
- Data mining Application Areas
- Data Mining Applications-Case Studies
- Housing Loan Prepayment Prediction
- Mortgage Loan Delinquency Prediction
- Crime Detection
- Store-Level Fruits Purchasing Prediction
- Other Application Area
- Types of Knowledge Discovered during Data Mining
- Comparing the Technologies
- Clustering And Nearest-Neighbor Prediction Technique
- What is a Decision Tree?
- Decision Trees
- Where to use Decision Trees?
- Tree Construction Principle
- The Generic Algorithm
- Guillotine Cut
- Over Fit
- Best Split
- Decision Tree Construction Algorithms
- Cart
- ID3
- Chaid
- How the Decision Tree Works
- State of the Industry
- Basics of Neural Networks
- Are neural networks easy to use?
- Business Scorecard
- Where to use Neural Networks
- Neural Networks for Clustering
- Neural Networks for Feature Extraction
- Applications Score Card
- The General Idea
- What is a Neural Network Pparadigm?
- Design decisions in architecting a neural network
- Different types of Neural Networks
- Kohonen feature Maps
- Applications of Neural Networks
- Knowledge Extraction Through Data Mining
- Association Rules
- Basic Algorithms for Finding Association Rules
- Association Rules among Hierarchies
- Negative Associations
- Additional Considerations for Association Rules
- Genetic Algorithm
- Crossover
- Genetic Algorithms In detail
- Mutation
- Problem-Dependent Parameters
- Encoding
- The Evaluation Step
- Data Mining using GA
- On Line Analytical Processing
- OLAP Example
- What is OLAP?
- Who uses OLAP and WHY?
- Multi-Dimensional Views
- Complex Calculations
- Time Intelligence
- Definitions of OLAP
- Comparison of OLAP and OLTP
- Characteristics of OLAP: FASMI
- Basic Features of OLAP
- Special features
- Introduction
- Multidimensional Data Model
- Multidimensional versus Multi-relational OLAP
- OLAP Guidelines
- Introduction
- OLAP Operations
- Lattice of Cubes, Slice and Dice Operations
- Relational Representation of the Data Cube
- DBMS
- Data Mining
- Mining Association Rules
- Classification by Decision Trees and Rules
- Prediction Methods
- Categorization of OLAP Tools
- MOLAP
- ROLAP
- Managed Query Environment (MQE)
- Cognos PowerPlay