This course will present state-of-the-art practice and research in the storage, extraction, manipulation and analysis of data, with a view to using these processes for making better management decisions. Topics include: extracting, cleaning, and organizing data from transactional databases, discovering and validating patterns and relationships using statistical techniques, and using the extracted patterns for making improved management decisions. [Offered: F] Prereq: MSCI 331, Level at least 3A; (One of CS 348, ECE 356, MSCI 346) and (One of CHE 220, CIVE 224, ECE 316, ENVE 224, MSCI 252, ME 202, MTE 201, NE 115, STAT 206, 231, 241, SYDE 212)
