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CP3403 - Data Mining

Credit points: 3
Year: 2023
Student Contribution Band: Band 2
Administered by: College of Science and Engineering

Students will be introduced in this subject to fundamental data mining and big data concepts, technologies, and applications. Topics include data mining, data warehousing, big data analytics, data visualisation, pre-processing, clustering, classification and association rules mining. Students will gain hands-on experience with popular data mining tools and develop skills in practical data mining and big data analytics.

Learning Outcomes

  • explain the notion of big data, information intelligence, data mining, data profiling, data cleaning and data integration and warehousing;
  • analyse and apply data mining techniques and tools;
  • examine the working principles of data mining and knowledge discovery in databases;
  • relate intelligence informatics to data warehousing, big data and data mining;
  • assess the potential benefits, risks, issues and challenges associated with big data and data mining.

Subject Assessment

  • Written > Examination (centrally administered) - (40%) - Individual
  • Written > Test/Quiz 1 - (20%) - Individual
  • Oral > Presentation 1 - (10%) - Group
  • Written > Project report - (30%) - Group.
Prerequisites: (CP2403 AND CP2404) OR (18 CREDIT POINTS OF UNDERGRADUATE SUBJECTS INCLUDING 6 CREDIT POINTS OF CP SUBJECTS)
Inadmissible
Subject
Combinations:
CP3300 CP5634

Availabilities

Cairns, Study Period 1, Internal
Census Date 23-Mar-2023
Coord/Lect: Dr Dmitry Konovalov.
Workload expectations:

The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.

  • 26 hours lectures
  • 12 hours specialised
  • assessment and self-directed study

JCU Brisbane, Trimester 1, Internal
Census Date 09-Mar-2023
Coordinator: Dr Dmitry Konovalov
Lecturer: Dr Ahmad Abdel-Hafez.
Workload expectations:

The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.

  • 26 hours lectures
  • 12 hours specialised
  • assessment and self-directed study

JCU Brisbane, Trimester 2, Internal
Census Date 22-Jun-2023
Coordinator: Dr Dmitry Konovalov
Workload expectations:

The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.

  • 26 hours lectures
  • 12 hours specialised
  • assessment and self-directed study

JCU Brisbane, Trimester 3, Internal
Census Date 05-Oct-2023
Coordinator: Dr Dmitry Konovalov
Workload expectations:

The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.

  • 26 hours lectures
  • 12 hours specialised
  • assessment and self-directed study

JCU Singapore, Study Period 51, Internal
Census Date 06-Apr-2023
Coordinator: Dr Dmitry Konovalov
Lecturer: Dr Eric Tham.
Workload expectations:

The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.

  • 26 hours lectures
  • 12 hours specialised
  • assessment and self-directed study

JCU Singapore, Study Period 52, Internal
Census Date 03-Aug-2023
Workload expectations:

The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.

  • 26 hours lectures
  • 12 hours specialised
  • assessment and self-directed study

Townsville, Study Period 1, Internal
Census Date 23-Mar-2023
Coord/Lect: Dr Dmitry Konovalov.
Workload expectations:

The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.

  • 26 hours lectures
  • 12 hours specialised
  • assessment and self-directed study

Study Period 1, External
Census Date 23-Mar-2023
Coord/Lect: Dr Dmitry Konovalov.
Workload expectations:

The student workload for this 3 credit point subject is approximately 130 hours.

  • 25 hours online activity
  • 13 hours online Seminars
  • assessment and self-directed study

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.