BÄ°L713 - DATA MINING

Course Name Code Semester Theory
(hours/week)
Application
(hours/week)
Credit ECTS
DATA MINING BÄ°L713 Any Semester/Year 3 0 3 8
Prequisites
Course languageTurkish
Course typeElective 
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-Face 
Learning and teaching strategiesLecture
Discussion
Preparing and/or Presenting Reports
Project Design/Management
 
Instructor (s)Department Responsible (bbm-bologna@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr) 
Course objectiveThe aim of this course is to learn the fundamentals of data processing and data mining. The students will gain understanding on how to extract interesting patterns on large datasets and the latest research problems in this area will be discussed. 
Learning outcomes
  1. students will gain a broad perspective on different data mining problems in various domains, the methods for data preprocessing and programming experience on developing data mining applications as well.
  2. students will contribute to the developments and existing problems in data mining research.
Course ContentIntroduction to data mining pipeline, data preprocessing and cleaning, classification methods, clustering, association rule mining, series analysis and sequence mining, graph mining, web mining 
References? P.-N. Tan, M. Steinbach and V. Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining, Wiley, 2005
? J. Han and M. Kamber. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques. Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd ed., 2006
? I. H. Witten and E. Frank, Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations, Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd ed. 2005
 

Course outline weekly

WeeksTopics
Week 1Introduction To Data Mining Pipeline
Week 2Data Preprocessing And Cleaning
Week 3Classification Methods
Week 4Clustering
Week 5Commonly Used Patterns Mining
Week 6Association Rule Mining
Week 7Series Analysis
Week 8Sequence Mining
Week 9Web Mining
Week 10Midterm exam
Week 11Data mining applications
Week 12Data mining tools
Week 13Student presentations
Week 14Student presentations
Week 15Study of final exam
Week 16Final exam

Assesment methods

Course activitiesNumberPercentage
Attendance00
Laboratory00
Application00
Field activities00
Specific practical training00
Assignments00
Presentation110
Project120
Seminar00
Midterms120
Final exam150
Total100
Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes350
Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes150
Total100

WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION

Activities Number Duration (hour) Total Work Load
Course Duration (x14) 14 3 42
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application000
Specific practical training000
Field activities000
Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect)8432
Presentation / Seminar Preparation13030
Project16060
Homework assignment000
Midterms (Study duration)12626
Final Exam (Study duration) 14040
Total Workload26163230

Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes

D.9. Key Learning OutcomesContrubition level*
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1. Graduates should have a mastery of computer science as described by the core of the Body of Knowledge.    X
2. Graduates need understanding of a number of recurring themes, such as abstraction, complexity, and evolutionary change, and a set of general principles, such as sharing a common resource, security, and concurrency.     X
3. Graduates of a computer science program need to understand how theory and practice influence each other.   X 
4. Graduates need to think at multiple levels of detail and abstraction.    X 
5. Students will be able to think critically, creatively and identify problems in their research.   X 
6. Graduates should have been involved in at least one substantial project.    X 
7. Graduates should realize that the computing field advances at a rapid pace.   X  
8. Graduates should conduct research in an ethical and responsible manner. X    
9. Graduates should have good command of technical terms in both Turkish and English.X    
10. Graduates should understand the full range of opportunities available in computing.  X  
11. Graduates should understand that computing interacts with many different domains. X    
12. Graduates should develop the knowledge acquired at master level and apply scientific methods in order to solve scientific problems.    X 

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