Page 248 - DCAP603_DATAWARE_HOUSING_AND_DATAMINING

Data Warehousing and Data Mining

notes 7. “The quality meta-model is not instantiated directly with concrete quality factors and
goals, it is instantiated with patterns for quality factors and goals.” Explain.
8. Explain data warehouse quality in detail.
9. “A quality factor is a special property or characteristic of the related object with respect to
a quality dimension.” Discuss.

10. Does the data warehouse play a tactical role, so that it makes a positive day-to-day
difference? Explain.

answers: self assessment

1. (a) 2. (b)
3. (c) 4. meta data hub

5. Quality metrics 6. natural language requirements
7. quality factor 8. data cleaning
9. loading process 10. query

12.9 further readings

Books A. K. Jain and R. C. Dubes, Algorithms for Clustering Data, Prentice Hall, 1988.
Alex Berson, Data Warehousing Data Mining and OLAP, Tata Mcgraw Hill, 1997
Alex Berson, Stephen J. Smith, Data warehousing, Data Mining & OLAP, Tata
McGraw Hill, Publications, 2004.
Alex Freitas and Simon Lavington, Mining Very Large Databases with Parallel
Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

J. Ross Quinlan, C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
1993.
Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, Data Mining – Concepts and Techniques, Morgan
Kaufmann Publishers, First Edition, 2003.
Matthias Jarke, Maurizio Lenzerini, Yannis Vassiliou, Panos Vassiliadis,
Fundamentals of Data Warehouses, Publisher: Springer

Michael Berry and Gordon Linoff, Data Mining Techniques (For Marketing, Sales,
and Customer Support), John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
Michael J. A. Berry, Gordon S Linoff, Data Mining Techniques, Wiley Publishing
Inc, Second Edition, 2004.
Sam Anohory, Dennis Murray, Data Warehousing in the Real World, Addison
Wesley, First Edition, 2000.

Sholom M. Weiss and Nitin Indurkhya, “Predictive Data Mining: A Practical Guide”,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998.
Sushmita Mitra, Tinku Acharya, Data Mining – Multimedia, Soft Computing and
Bioinformatics, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

242 LoveLy professionaL university