CODE 60270 ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 2 INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE 8734 (LM-31) - SAVONA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR ING-INF/05 LANGUAGE Italian (English on demand) TEACHING LOCATION SAVONA SEMESTER 1° Semester TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW The course introduces the basic concepts of Business Intelligence (BI) with particular reference to aspects of Analytics/Data Mining and focusing on the use analytical methods and reporting to support business decisions. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The course introduces the basic concepts of Business Intelligence (BI) with particular reference to aspects of Analytics/Data Mining and focusing on the use analytical methods and reporting to support business decisions. The students will acquire both the basic skills for the design of a BI system and the ability to critically evaluate the data analysis performed with Data Mining tools. During the course some seminars are planned that illustrate real cases of application of the BI in the enterprise. TEACHING METHODS Lectures and computer assisted lab sessions. SYLLABUS/CONTENT Introduction to Business Intelligence (BI): problems methods and tools. Components of a BI system: ETL, Data Mart and Data Warehouses, On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), Reports and Dashboards, Analytics and Data Mining. Analysis and definition of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Analytics: Basic concepts of statistical inference, Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA). Tools and Techniques of Data Mining: decision trees and association rules, Naive Bayes, linear methods for classification and regression, Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machine and kernel methods; Clustering methods; Quality Assessment of Data Mining techniques . Business case studies. RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY Lecture notes provided during the course. Further readings: • C.Vercellis, Business Intelligence: modelli matematici e sistemi per le decisioni, McGraw-Hill, 2006. • P.Giudici, Data Mining: metodi informatici, statistici e applicazioni, McGraw-Hill, 2003. • J.Han, M.Kamber, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Morgan Kaufmann, 2006 (2nd Ed.). TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD GIACOMO CARLO BOTTARO Exam Board GIACOMO CARLO BOTTARO (President) LUCA ONETO DAVIDE ANGUITA (President Substitute) LESSONS Class schedule BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION Oral examination. The student will develop autonomously (individually or in cooperation with other students) a case study, selected among those proposed as exam topics and using the methods discussed during the course. The oral examination will focus on the discussion of the case study. Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 12/01/2021 14:30 SAVONA Orale 27/01/2021 14:30 SAVONA Orale 15/02/2021 14:30 SAVONA Orale 10/06/2021 14:30 SAVONA Orale 07/07/2021 14:30 SAVONA Orale 15/09/2021 14:30 SAVONA Orale