Advanced database techniques and concepts including: advanced normalisation, monitoring and tuning database systems, query optimisation, professional, distributed, object and other advanced DBMSs. Advanced data analysis techniques including data mining, predictive analytics, supervised and unsupervised methods, data visualisation. Current topics in database and data analytics research.
This topic aims to introduce students to advanced techniques and concepts of database design and implementation, legal and ethical issues of databases and selected topics in database research.
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