Introduction to Course

Data Mining

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 Introduction

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 Course Name:
 Data Mining
 Credit Hours : 3
 Class Hours:
 Monday(09:30-11:00)
 Wednesday(12:30-02:00)
 Evaluation…..Can we change
 Quizzes - 7 Marks
 Assignments – 8 Marks
 Project- 15 marks
 Mid-term Exam – 45 Marks
 Terminal - 75 Marks
 Review Paper, Presentation - ?

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 Class Hours

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 Course Instructor:
 Anees Ahmed Awan
 anees.awan70@gmail.com
 Office Timing
 Tuesday 2:00-4:00
 Web page, forum, group ?
 Create a Facebook page for lecturers

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 Pre-requisites

Introduction to Course
 How to program?
 Algorithms and Data Structures
 Computational Mathematics
 Basic Statistics

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 Course Outline

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 Introduction: What is data mining? What makes it a new and unique
discipline?
 Relationship between data Warehousing, Online Analytical Processing , and
data mining.
 Data ware housing , Data Mining Process: Data Preparation/cleansing, task
Identification.
 Association rules mining, association rules – different algorithm types.
 Classification/Prediction. Classification - tree-based approaches, Neural
Networks, Bayesian etc.
 Clustering basics, Statistical approaches, Neural-net and other approaches.
 Cross-Industry Standard Process for data mining(CRISP-
DM), Practical use of SPSS(Clementine)/WEKA.

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 Course Material

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 Books
 J. Han and M. Kamber. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques.
Morgan Kaufmann, 3rd ed., 2011
 Introduction to Data Mining by Pang-Ning Tan, Michael
Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Addision-Wesley.
 One line resources, lecture slides and other supporting
material
 Will be conveyed and provided during the class.

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Questions?
Thanks….
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