Summary of responses to BI course request
Attached is a summary of BI course response that I received.
Original Query:
Dear Colleagues,
We are in the process of developing an undergraduate course in Business
Intelligence for MIS majors. Students, typically, will take this course in
their junior or senior year. They would have taken one statistics and
several MIS courses before they enroll in BI course. We are planning to
include some basic data mining techniques. I would appreciate if you can
provide some input and/or share your syllabi.
I will summarize the responses.
Thanks,
Anil Aggarwal
Merrick School of Business
University of Baltimore
Syllabi can be viewed at:
http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbagga/BI/
From: Prof. Dr. Jan Muntermann | Stiftungsjuniorprofessur für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insb. EFinance & Securities Trading
Dear Anil,
I teach a master course on DSS that covers BI. I use the book
Turban, E. et al.: "Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems", Pearson, 2007.
You can register (free) at Person Education and download a set of powerpoint slides:
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator
If you want to include some basic data mining techniques (and if you want to have some
hands-on work), I’d recommend to have a look at RapidMiner tool, which is free for
academic use:
rapid-i.com/index.php?lang=en
It provides data mining / machine learning techniques such as ID3, C4.5, Neural
Networks etc.
I’d apriciate any feedback.
Best regards, Jan
Hi Anil: I am attaching my syllabus for the BI course that I taught last Spring.
Thanks,
Kakoli
From:
Haluk Demirkan, Clinical Associate Professor Research Faculty, Center for
Services Leadership W. P. Carey School of Business Department of
Information Systems Arizona State University
Hi Anil
I just saw your email at the AIS Listserv. I am one of the advisors at
Teradata Univerity Network (TUN)
(http://academicprograms.teradata.com/templates/home.aspx?id=41). TUN
provides dss/bi/dm course content and software packages free of charge to
faculty and students as with a software-as-a-service architecture.
There are a lot of content and sample data for TUN's website about
database, business intelligence and data mining courses.
Please let us know for anything that we can help.
When you create a uid/pwd for faculty, Susan will process your
application.
From: Martyn Roberts, University of Portsmouth, UK
Dear Anil,
I've taught the BI unit here at University of Portsmouth for many years.
Until a few years ago I used to call it Decision Support Systems, but BI
now appears to have become the prevalent term.
My Scheme of Work is attached. Get back to me if I can be of further
assistance.
Martyn
Syllabi at:
From: Dr. David E. Douglas
Business Building 204
1 University of Arkansas
Anil
A readable text for undergraduate data mining is: "Discovering Knowledge
in Data" by Daniel Larose
Our Enterprise Systems at the University of Arkansas provides data
warehousing and data mining capabilities via the Microsoft Enterprise
Consortium (MEC) and our Teradata system.
The MEC link is:
http://enterprise.waltoncollege.uark.edu/mec.asp
Our Teradata Link is:
http://enterprise.waltoncollege.uark.edu/TUN.asp
From: Jeet Gupta
Anil:
I taught this course last summer using Turban et al's BI book and SAP BI
suite.
I will not teach that course in 5 weeks again as I had to give up lot of
material which I think is important.
SAP had problems which could not be resolved in that short period of time
either.
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From: Wlad
Dear Anil,
I am posting this on behalf of my colleague Mrs. Françoise Bousquet
<francoise.bousquet@zfib.com>
Sincerely
Wlad
Syllabi in all syllabi list