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COMP 414 Work Plan

The document outlines a work plan for a university course on data mining and knowledge discovery. It details course objectives, topics to be covered over 12 weeks including introduction to data mining, data warehousing, data clustering, data classification, and a case study of a data mining software platform. Assessment includes CAT exams, assignments, and a main exam.

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COMP 414 Work Plan

The document outlines a work plan for a university course on data mining and knowledge discovery. It details course objectives, topics to be covered over 12 weeks including introduction to data mining, data warehousing, data clustering, data classification, and a case study of a data mining software platform. Assessment includes CAT exams, assignments, and a main exam.

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U N I V E R S I T Y OF ELDORET

COMP 414 (Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery) Work Plan

Objectives: At the end of the course, the student should be able to;
 Describe the potential applications areas of data mining.
 Describe the issues and principles in hosting databases for mining.
 Describe the various techniques used in data mining.
 Demonstrate potential to use a software platform to carry out data mining tasks.

Topics
1. Introduction to Data Mining
(Wk 1) 3.1: Definition & Applications. 3.2: Techniques.
(Wk 2) 3.2: Techniques. 3.3: Data sets issues.

2. Data Warehousing
(Wk 3) 4.1: Business Intelligence 4.2: DW Architectures
4.3: Data Integration
(Wk 4) 4.4: OLTP versus OLAP 4.5: DW Design Issues

3. Data Clustering
(Wk 5) 5.1: Introduction. 5.2: Objectives of clustering.
5.3: VSM representation. Assignment 1
(Wk 6) 5.4: Types of clustering algorithms. CAT 1
(Wk 7) 5.5: Case Study of 2 Algorithms: KMeans. DBSCAN.

4. Data Classification
(Wk 8) 6.1: Introduction. 6.2: Types of classification algorithms.
6.3: Challenges in classification. 6.4: Decision trees.
(Wk 9) 6.5: Rule-based classifiers. 6.6: Other methods.
(Wk 10) 6.6: Other methods. CAT 2

5. Case Study of Data Mining Software Platform


(Wk 11) Case study Assignment 2
(Wk 12) Case study

Teaching Methodologies: Lectures, lab sessions, assignments, exams, seminars, discussions, case studies
and library references.
Instructional materials / equipment: Notes, manuals, whiteboard, presentation slides / projector and
demos, library, computers, appropriate software, Internet.

References
 J. Han and M. Kamber, “Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques”, Harcourt India /Morgan
Kauffman, 2001.
 Alex Berson and Stephen J. Smith, “Data Warehousing, Data mining and OLAP”, Tata McGraw-
Hill, 2004.
 Margaret H. Dunham, “Data Mining: Introductory and Advanced Topics”, Pearson Education, 2004.
 Sam Anahory and Dennis Murry, “Data Warehousing in the Real World”, Pearson Education, 2003.

Assessment: CATs (20 %), Assignment (20%), Main Exam (60 %).

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