Decision support systems provide information to support semi-structured and unstructured decisions in modern organisations. The decision support systems studied in this unit are computer based and provide for user manipulation of source data extracted from databases both internal and external to the organisation. Students will study decision support systems involving: Data Warehousing and Data Marts, Online Analytic Processing, Data Mining, and Geographic Information Systems. The unit will be taught using modern software including SPSS Clementine and the popular GIS package MapInfo. Available to graduate students both in Business and in Applied Statistics, this unit expands on topics covered in MIST800 Computer Applications in Business.

Topics

• Data Mining: Principles and Concepts
• Data Mining: Data Warehouse and OLAP Technology
• Data Mining: Data Preprocessing (Missing values, noisy data, inconsistent data)
• Data Mining: Concept hierarchies, interestingness measures & visualisation
• Data Mining: Descriptive data mining
• Data Mining: Mining Association Rules - Market Basket Analysis
• Data Mining: Classification and Prediction
• Data Mining: Cluster Analysis
• GIS: Introduction – presenting business geographic data
• GIS: Active earth maps
• GIS: Maps with hyperlinks
• GIS: Contour maps