Data Mining is a multidisciplinary field which brings together a wide variety of techniques from areas of research and development with longer histories: machine learning, pattern recognition, statistics, databases and visualization. The purpose of this course is to provide a comprehensive discussion on using organizational data sources to enable decision support through mining of data. The course will provide an in-depth understanding of the conceptual and application issues in the area of data mining. The major focus this semester will be on Data Mining algorithms and applications with hands on look at implementation issues.