BIL 4008 Data Mining 3+0+0 4
Year / Semester Spring semester
Level of Course First Cycle
Status Elective
Department Computer Engineering
Prerequisites and co-requisites  N/A
Mode of Delivery Face to face
Contact hours 14 weeks
Lecturer Asst. Prof. Dr. Murat Aykut
Co-Lecturer  
Language of instruction Turkish
Internship N/A
 
Course Syllabus
Week Subject Related Notes / Files
Week 1 Data Mining Concepts: Data Mining Process, Data Warehouses, Data Marts, Large Data Sets  
Week 2 Preparing the Data: Representation of Raw Data, Characteristics of Raw Data, Transformation of Raw Data  
Week 3 Missing Data, Time Dependent Data, Outlier Analysis  
Week 4 Data Reduction: Feature Reduction, Relief Algorithm, Entropy Measure for Ranking Features, PCA  
Week 5 Value Reduction, Feature Discretization: ChiMerge Technique, Case Reduction  
Week 6 Learning From Data: Support Vector Machines, k-NN, model selection vs generalization  
Week 7 Bayesian Classification, Logistic Regression, LDA  
Week 8 Decision Trees  
Week 9 Midterm exam  
Week 10 Ensemble Learning: Bagging, Boosting, AdaBoost  
Week 11 Cluster Analysis: DBSCAN, DENCLUE  
Week 12 Association Rules: Apriori, FP Growth  
Week 13 Web Mining, Text Mining  
Week 14 Graph Mining, Temporal Data Mining, Spatial Data Mining  
Week 15 Visualization Methods  
Week 16 Final exam  
Textbook / Material
1 Data Mining - Concepts, Models, Methods, and Algorithms - Mehmed Kantardzic, 2nd edition, Wiley, 2011, 534 pages  
Recommended Reading
2 Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques 3rd edition - Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, Jian Pei, Morgan Kaufmann, 2012, 744 pages.

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