1. Using an example to describe the process of data mining.
Your example is to think of a SMALL business and what data it uses
and describe how you would perform data mining on the data
(5 Marks)
2. Data warehouse and data mart are architecturally
different as we know. Discuss these architectural differences. You
must show in your answers one example of a data warehouse and one
of data mart. (5 Marks)
3. What are the major design principles of
security architecture that need to be adhered to in the creation
and operation of a data warehouse? (5 Marks)
4. How are descriptive analytics and
predictive analytics related? Report on what each does and, on
their relationship(s). (5 Marks)
5.
the Apriori algorithm is the most commonly used algorithm
to discover associations rules. Based on this and using the table
below to analyse the below table. You must follow the step-by-step
approach we followed during the lectures to list the rules that are
accepted or rejected.
Hint: As you should know you have to calculate the support and
confidence when creating the tables and Functions
Transactions ID
Items bought in a Transaction
Trans. 1
B, E, W
Trans .2
B, T, W
Trans. 3
E, M
Trans. 4
M, B, W
Trans. 5
B, E, W, T
Note: B is Beef, E is Eggs, W is wine, M is Margarine, T
is Toast