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CSC522 DATA WAREHOUSING AND DATA MINING LTPC 3 0 0 3
Course
Prerequisite: Database Management Systems
Objective
To help students: understand the fundamental processes, concepts and techniques of data
mining and develop an appreciation for the inherent complexity of the data-mining task;
advance relevant programming skills; and advance research skills through the investigation of
data-mining literature.
Expected Outcome
On completion of this course student should have gained a good understanding of the basic
concepts, principles and techniques of data mining. Specifically, student should be able to:
1. Define knowledge discovery and data mining
2. Recognize the key areas and issues in data mining
3. Apply the techniques of clustering, classification, association finding, feature selection and
visualisation to real world data
4. Determine whether a real world problem has a data mining solution
5. Apply evaluation metrics to select data mining techniques
Text / Reference Books
1. Jiawei Han and Micheline Kambers, “Data Mining –Concepts and Techniques”, 2nd edition,
Morgan Kaufman Publications, 2011.
2. David Hand, Heikki Mannila and Prdhraic Smyth, “Principles of Data Mining”, 3rd edition,
Morgan Kaufman Publications, 2009.
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Proceedings of the 26th Academic Council held on 18.5.2012
3. M. Kantardzic, “Data Mining: Concepts, Models, Methods, and Algorithms”, 2nd edition,
Wiley-IEEE Press, 2011.
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