Final year major project on Business intelligence

Question

we are planning to do a final yr project on Business intelligence, but WE are having PROBLEM in getting good data for our project.

we need a lot of data (millions ) ..if possible operational data from a company. But I am from Nepal ( Under developed country) and  WE dont have operational data.. for doing a project on Business intelligence.

Our target is to Use SSIS , SSAS and  SSRS  and learn them . we will analyze data...Visualize.. and make reports out of them.

Also make suitable suggestion from existing data using Artificial intelligence . WE have chosen Back propagation algorithm for that.

Now Can anyone tell me WHERE  can I get good  database or operational data for that?? . Anything like - supermarket  ,departmental store, insurance, bank , or any other comapany.

IT would be great  help if anyone can tell me how to get the data.. or give me one if you have one .

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Sandeep

Answer 1

Sure. I have been in a similar position in the past for one of my data mining projects. Here are few places I know:

1) "Microsoft Contoso BI demo" http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18279

2) Search for datasets on Windows Azure Data Market

3) Here's a comprehensive list: http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/index.html

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Paras Doshi (Blog: ParasDoshi.com | Twitter: @Paras_Doshi )