The main goal of the „Business Intelligence and Data Mining“ course is to acquaint the students with the Business Intelligence (BI) concept and the architecture of BI systems as an environment for timely provision of quality information to support the decision management process. The course will also introduce to the students the data mining concept and the main steps in the process of knowledge discovery in databases. The main types of data mining tasks will be discussed, including data exploration, clustering, association analysis, prediction, outlier detection. A special focus will be put on the approaches and methods used for text mining, as well as the implementation of text mining for sentiment analysis. During the classes, the students will use specialized BI software to develop BI applications, and Data Mining tools to analyze data by implementing different data mining techniques, thus learning how to extract managerial information and knowledge from available business data.

Type of methodology: Combination of lecture and hands-on

Participants receive the certificate of attendance: No

Paid training activity for participants: Yes, for all

Language: Bulgarian