Data Mining

A Children Home Management System supports the Management of Talithakum Children Home in producing the required reports in the quickest time possible. It was set up with the following capabilities: Management was able to review the number of children in each house and generally viewed the total number of children. Statistics of children could be made and the number of females and males could be ascertained. The comparison of age variation could be made to find out the bracket that is admitted in the home. The opportunistic infections that mostly affect the children could be known without physically going to the manual files. By the click of a button, several things could be retrieved and a report made as and when required for decision making. The donors will get detailed report of the children in order to avail funds to run the children’s home smoothly. In the manual system when reports are needed, especially about children, it takes a long time to produce a single report for Management to take decision. The computers available are all stand-alone and they will be networked. A code was written using Mysql and visual basic 6.0. the system runs on windows platform. Each user is given privileges and authority to access the system after registration through the graphical user interface, which have buttons to choose from. There are two categories of users, Data Entrants and Management. Data entrants capture data about the children background information and their current status like school and medical records, they can edit what they enter and produce the general report for management to view and make corrections. Management can adjust reports to their expectations and extract the required detailed report for their decision-making. Reports can be extracted any time from any computer within the network instantly. This system could be moderated for use in any children home that require getting instant reports on the children for decision-making.