MA5810 - Introduction to Data Mining

This subject will provide students with a range of widely used algorithms and techniques to automatically extract patterns from data. Students will learn a range of classic yet powerful and often applied techniques for the most common descriptive and predictive tasks in data mining, including clustering, outlier detection, and classification. The algorithms and techniques will be studied both at the conceptual as well as at the practical levels. Software packages will be adopted for hands-on data mining in real data sets.

Learning Outcomes

• explain what data mining is about and exemplify the most common tasks and types of data mining problems;
• describe, choose, and apply classic unsupervised data mining methods for descriptive analytics tasks, such as clustering and outlier detection;
• describe, choose, and apply classic unsupervised and supervised techniques for dimensionality reduction;
• describe, choose, and apply classic supervised data mining methods for pattern classification.

Subject Assessment

• Written > Test/Quiz 1 - (30%) - Individual
• Written > Problem task - (30%) - Individual
• Written > Project report - (40%) - Individual.

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