Course Catalog 2011-2012
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Course Catalog 2011-2012

SGN-5306 Knowledge Mining, 3 cr

Additional information

Lectures in English or in Finnish.
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Ari Visa

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
 4 h/per

 

 

 

 
SGN-5306 2011-01 Monday 10 - 12, TB224
Thursday 10 - 12, TB223

Requirements

Assignment and final examination.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes: The student can describe the difference between data and knowledge mining. The student can list and describe OLAP, association, predictive modeling, modeling, regression analysis and cluster analysis. The student can analyse the own problem and apply the lectured method on it. The student is capable to analyse the proposed solutions.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Concept Description  Data preprocessing Data Generalization Summarization-Based Characterization Analyzing of Attribute Relevance   
2. Mining Association Rules  Mining Single-Dimensional Boolean Association Rules, and Multilevel Association Rules, and Multidimensional Association Rules Correlation Analysis    
3. Descriptive Models  Cluster Analysis Describing Data by Probability Distributions and Densities   Parametric models Nonparametric models 
4. Predictive Models  Regression models Stochastic models Predictive models for classification Models for structured data   

Evaluation criteria for the course

The examination is based on the final exam and an exercise work. The grading of the execise work is pass/fail.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques"   Jiawei Han & Micheline Kamber       Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, 2000      English  
Book   "Principles of Data Mining"   David J. Hand, Heikki Mannila and Padhraic Smyth       MIT Press, 2000      English  

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
SGN-5306 Knowledge Mining, 3 cr 8004202 Data Mining, 2 cu  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
SGN-5306 2011-01        

Last modified09.02.2011