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Data WarehousingData Warehousing
Lecture-37Lecture-37
Case Study: Agri-Data WarehouseCase Study: Agri-Data Warehouse
Virtual University of PakistanVirtual University of Pakistan
Ahsan Abdullah
Assoc. Prof. & Head
Center for Agro-Informatics Research
www.nu.edu.pk/cairindex.asp
FAST National University of Computers & Emerging Sciences, IslamabadFAST National University of Computers & Emerging Sciences, Islamabad
DWH-Ahsan Abdullah
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BackgroundBackground
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Area under studyArea under study
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Area under study: MapArea under study: Map
Key Markaz
1 Bosan
2 Qadirpurran
3 Multan
4 Makhdum Rashid
5 Mumtazabad
6 Shujabad
7 Hafizwala
8 Jalalpur Pirwala
9 Qasba Marral
GraphicsGraphics
DWH-Ahsan Abdullah
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Major PlayersMajor Players
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Pests & PredatorsPests & Predators
Pests Predators
Source: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
GraphicsGraphics
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Economic Threshold Level (ETL_A)Economic Threshold Level (ETL_A)
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ETL_A: GraphETL_A: Graph
Time
ETL_A
PestPopulation Economic Injury
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The needThe need
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The need: IT in AgricultureThe need: IT in Agriculture
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Agro-InformaticsAgro-Informatics
 “I.T. sector is at the heart of the economic
revival of Pakistan” President of Pakistan,
Launching of VU, Mar. 23, 2003.
 Agriculture is the backbone of our economy,
about 70% of the population is dependent on it.
 IT is an enabler, and has the potential to benefit
everyone when applied in Agriculture.
 IT + Agriculture: A win-win scenario.
ALL Goes to graphics
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Agro-Informatics: Interesting URLAgro-Informatics: Interesting URL
To know more about Agro-Informatics, visit
www.nu.edu.pk/cairindex.asp
ALL Goes to graphics
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How to go about?How to go about?
DWH-Ahsan Abdullah
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The 12-step Approach of Shaku AtreThe 12-step Approach of Shaku Atre
ALL Goes to graphics
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Step-1: Determine User’s needsStep-1: Determine User’s needs
DWH-Ahsan Abdullah
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Step-1: Determine Users needsStep-1: Determine Users needs
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Steps-2&3: Determine DBMS Sever & Hardware PlatformSteps-2&3: Determine DBMS Sever & Hardware Platform
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Step-4: Information & Data ModelingStep-4: Information & Data Modeling
Dimensional ModelingDimensional Modeling
GraphicsGraphics
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Simplified ERDSimplified ERD
Step-4: Information & Data ModelingStep-4: Information & Data Modeling
Other field inputs such as irrigation, fertilizer etc. not included as data not
available
GraphicsGraphics
DWH-Ahsan Abdullah
20Logical & Physical DesignLogical & Physical Design
Step-4: Information & Data ModelingStep-4: Information & Data Modeling
(optional)
KEY
WFN: White Fly Nymph
WFA: White Fly Adult
W: White
B: Brown
S: Small Larvae
L: Large Larvae
GraphicsGraphics
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Step-5: Construct Metadata RepositoryStep-5: Construct Metadata Repository
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Step-5: Surprise caseStep-5: Surprise case
-0.2
-0.15
-0.1
-0.05
0
0.05
0.1
0.15
0.2
0.25
0.3
Jassid
WhiteFly_Nymph
WhiteFly_Adult
Thrip
Mite
SBW
ABW_White_Eggs
ABW_Brown_Eggs
ABW_Larvae_Small
ABW_Larvae_Large
PBW_RF
PBW_Bolls
Correlation
Ball Worm ComplexSucking pests
SBW: Spotted Ball Worm
ABW: Army Ball Worm
PBW: Pink Ball Worm
If pest population is low, predator population will also be low, because there will
be less “food” for predators to live on i.e. pests.
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Lecture 37

Editor's Notes

  1. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  2. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  3. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  4. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  5. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  6. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  7. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  8. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  9. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  10. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  11. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  12. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  13. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  14. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  15. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  16. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  17. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  18. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  19. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  20. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.
  21. <number> Moore’s law on increase in performance of CPUs and decrease in cost has been surpassed by the increase in storage space and decrease in cost. Secondly as I mentioned earlier the data warehouse has the historical data. And one thing that we have learned by using information is that, “the best predictor of the future is the past”. You use historical data, you then use your insight to how the environment is changing. Because of course you cannot use data extracted from the past. You have to have to bring your insight as to how the environment is changing in order to predict the future accurately. So why would you want data warehouse in an organization? First of all a data warehouse gives a total view of an organization. If you look at the operational system the databases in most environments, the databases are designed around different lines of business. Lets say I am a bank for e.g. a bank will typically have current Accounts. They will have another system for leasing, and another system for managing credit cards and another system for every different kind of business they are in. However, no where they have the total view of the environment from the customers perspective. Because the transaction processing systems are typically designed around functional areas, within a business environment. For good decision making you should be able to integrate the data across the organization. So the idea here is to give the total view of the organization especially from a customer’s perspective within the data warehouse. Consider a bank, which is losing customers, for reasons not known. However, one thing is known that the bank is losing business. Therefore, it is important, actually critical to understand which customers have left you and why they have left. This will give you the ability to predict going forward (in future), which customers will leave you. So we are going to talk about this in the course using data mining algorithms, like clustering, classification, regression analysis etc. This being another example of using historical data to predict the future. So I can predict today, which customers will leave me in the nest 3 months before they even leave. There, can be, and there are whole courses on data mining, but we will just have an applied introduction about data mining in this course.