First meeting of my Undergraduate Business Intelligence Course

Yesterday, Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 was the first meeting of my ISYS 4293, Business Intelligence class at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. 


Our BI course is focused on Data Mining and we use Daniel Larose's book, Discovering Knowledge in Data (2005). Here are my course syllabus and schedule.


Here are my PowerPoint Slides for the first class.  I had asked students to read a piece of news related to DM on KDnuggets.com or other websites and share it with the class. I had also asked the class to review previous year's KDD Cup and choose a data set to work on during the class. The class was pretty excited. They had read the news and had researched the KDD Cup.They, however, know little about DM and thus some of the evaluations measures such as AUC and RMSE became confusing. We covered the basics, CRISP-DM, and DM tasks, discussed the 5 case studies in the book and as I walked around the class we discussed some of the KDD Cup data sets. 


I am excited, tonight working on Assignment 2 for the class, would want the first assignment covers all the details the class needs to learn from Chapter 2.