Modern Mining Information Systems

For Whom is this Course Designed & Why?

Advances in both the general IT industry and evolution of the IT-based mining solutions have created excellent opportunities for improvement in performance monitoring and analysis. However, traditional mining engineering and management education have not incorporated these latest highly valuable skills in curriculum. Other industries have undergone huge and fundamental improvements in their business processes through the effective exploitation of stored data. This course will introduce the skill set needed to exploit these new opportunities.

Course Topics Include

• Basics of Databases and database design
• Effective documentation of database solutions
• Commercial systems in mines and their data types
• Data Warehousing & Data Mining
• Business Processes & their data

Learn to:

• Integrate databases
• Design and implement OLAP cubes, then slice & dice data
• Access huge databases through MS Excel
• Schedule data importation into analysis tools
• Create sustainable analysis tools of integrated data solutions

Day One

8:00 am - 12 noon	Phase I - Introduction to topic: DBs & Business Processes Phase II - Basics of DBs & Commercial Systems
12:00 - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 - 5:30 pm	Phase III - Database design for mining engineers Phase IV - Business processes & their data

Day Two

8:00 am - 12 noon	Phase V - Views & Sequential Querying Language (SQL) Phase VI - Data Mining Phase VII - Data to Action
12:00 - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 - 4:30 pm	Phase VIII - The road ahead Intro to Data Visualization