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National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Department of Industrial Management


Syllabus of Fall Semester, 2016
2016/09/22
Course
Data Mining
Required/
Credits
3
Optional
Title
Applications
Optional
Distinguished Professor
Graduate
rjkuo@mail.ntust.edu.tw
Instructor
IM
E-mail
Ren-Jieh Kuo
Program
Course objectives:
1. Learn the basics of data mining methods.
2. Be able to code the existing data mining algorithms.
3. Be able to apply data mining to solve real problems.
Course introduction:
This course intends to introduce some data mining techniques which include
classification, estimation, clustering, and association rules mining. It also provides some
application examples for these techniques.
Textbook:
Tan, P.-N., Steinbach, M., and Kumar, V., Introduction to Data Mining, Pearson Education,
Inc., 2014.
References:
Han, J. and Kamber, M., Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 2nd Edition, Morgan
Kaufmann, 2006.
Prerequisites:
Statistics, Management, and coding capability
Schedule:
Week 1 (09/15): Holiday
Week 10 (11/17): Clustering I
Week 2 (09/22): Course introduction
Week 11 (11/24): Clustering II
Week 3 (09/29): Intro. to data mining
Week 12 (12/01): Association mining (SOM)
Week 4 (10/06): Data I
Week 13 (12/08): Homework 2 demo
Week 5 (10/13): Data II
Week 14 (12/15): Exploring data
Week 6 (10/20): Classification I
Week 15 (12/22): Homework 3 demo (Weka)
Week 7 (10/27): Classification II
Week 16 (12/29): Final exam
Week 8 (11/03): Classification III
Week 17 (01/05): Final project presentation I
Week 9 (11/10): Homework 1 demo (ANN) Week 18 (01/12): Final project presentation II
Grading:
Homework (two computer programs including classification (10%), clustering (10%) and
Weka application (20%)) 40%
Use benchmark data to validate the programs
Demo results in class
Final exam 30%
Final team project 30%
Write a survey report for the selected problem (at least 3 journal papers from 20062016)
Solve a real-world problem using data mining techniques
Present in class (Every team member has to present in class)
Suggestions for students:
Read related academic journals.
Try to code the algorithms and apply them to the real data.

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