Course Title: Data Mining
Ashutosh Pandey
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Course Description
• Data Mining is automated extraction of patterns
representing knowledge implicitly stored in
information repositories. The course covers how
to prepare real-world data for data mining tasks
and perform data mining tasks such as finding
association rules, classification, and clustering.
Students gain knowledge of the design and use of
data mining algorithms. The course includes
database, statistical, algorithmic and application
perspectives of data mining.
Modular Content Structure
Introduction to Data Mining
– Data Mining definitions
– Data Mining activities
– DM process
– DM challenges
Data Preprocessing
– Data Quality
– Data preprocessing requirements
– Data preprocessing techniques
Data Exploration
– Statistical descriptions of data
– Measuring data similarity & dissimilarity
– Data Visualization
Classification and Prediction
– Concepts of classification and prediction
– Decision trees for classification
– Rule based classification, Bayesian classification, ANN,
Support vector machines
– Prediction Techniques
Association Analysis
– Association analysis concepts
– Apriori Algorithm for frequent item sets
– FP-Tree technique for frequent item sets
– Mining association rules
Clustering
– Cluster analysis concepts.
– Partitioning methods
– Hierarchical methods for cluster analysis
– Density based methods for cluster analysis
• Anomaly Detection
– Concepts of Outliers
– Statistical approaches
– Proximity and Density based outlier detection
Data mining on unstructured (Big) data
– Graph Mining methods and applications
– Multimedia Data Mining
– Text Mining, Web and Social Media Mining
• Data Mining Applications
– Recommendation systems
– Fraud Detection
– Sentiment Analysis
Evaluation Scheme
No Name Type Duration Weight Day, Date, Session,
Time
Assignment-I/ Quiz-I
Quiz-II To be announced
EC-1 15% To be announced
(must include select topics and case studies)
Assignment-II/ Quiz-II
EC-2 Mid-Semester Test Closed Book 2 hours 35% To be announced
EC-3 Comprehensive Exam Open Book 3 hours 50% To be announced