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Syllabus ( CSE 557 )


   Basic information
Course title: Data Mining
Course code: CSE 557
Lecturer: Assist. Prof. Burcu YILMAZ
ECTS credits: 7.5
GTU credits: 3 (3+0+0)
Year, Semester: 1/2, Fall and Spring
Level of course: Second Cycle (Master's)
Type of course: Area Elective
Language of instruction: Turkish
Mode of delivery: Face to face , Lab work
Pre- and co-requisites: CSE 454
Professional practice: No
Purpose of the course: The purpose of this course is to teach students how to make large data more benefitable and perform the processes required for providing the useful knowledge to decision support systems. It is aimed to teach students how to detect the information, pattern and rules hidden in data and convert the data in understable form and evaluate the findings.
   Learning outcomes Up

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Differentiate between useful and useless information in large data stack

    Contribution to Program Outcomes

    1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Computer Engineering
    2. Use advanced knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering

    Method of assessment

    1. Written exam
  2. Detect information, pattern, and rules hidden in large data stack

    Contribution to Program Outcomes

    1. Formulate and solve advanced engineering problems
    2. Use advanced knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering

    Method of assessment

    1. Written exam
    2. Homework assignment
    3. Laboratory exercise/exam
  3. Analyze the performance of data mining methods and interpret the outcomes of these methods.

    Contribution to Program Outcomes

    1. Use advanced knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering
    2. Follow, interpret and analyze scientific researches in the field of engineering and use the knowledge in his/her field of study

    Method of assessment

    1. Homework assignment
    2. Laboratory exercise/exam
  4. Use the methods that extract useful information from large data stack

    Contribution to Program Outcomes

    1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Computer Engineering
    2. Find out new methods to improve his/her knowledge.

    Method of assessment

    1. Written exam
    2. Homework assignment
  5. List the steps for extraction of useful information in the data

    Contribution to Program Outcomes

    1. Formulate and solve advanced engineering problems
    2. Use advanced knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering

    Method of assessment

    1. Written exam
   Contents Up
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Data
Week 3: Exploration
Week 4: Classification
Week 5: Advanced issues on Classification
Week 6: Association Rules and Advanced issues on Association Rules
Week 7: Midterm exam
Week 8: Clustering
Week 9: Advanced issues on Clustering
Week 10: Anomaly detection
Week 11: Web Mining
Week 12: Text Mining
Week 13: Data Mining based Intrusion Detection
Week 14: The other issues
Week 15*: Applications to the criminal identification in social networks.
Week 16*: Final exam
Textbooks and materials: Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, By Han, Jiawei, Kamber, Micheline, 1964- Published 2001, Morgan Kaufmann, Data mining, 550 pages, ISBN 1558604898

Recommended readings: Principles of Data Mining (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning) (Hardcover) by David J. Hand (Author), Heikki Mannila (Author), Padhraic Smyth (Author)

Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) (Paperback) by Ian H. Witten (Author), Eibe Frank (Author)

Data Mining Solutions Methods and Tools for Solving Real World Problems, Christopher Westphal, Teresa Blaxton, Wiley

Kavram ve Algoritmalarıyla Temel Veri Madenciliği, Dr. Gökhan Silahtaroğlu, Birinci Baskı, Papatya Yayınları
  * Between 15th and 16th weeks is there a free week for students to prepare for final exam.
Assessment Up
Method of assessment Week number Weight (%)
Mid-terms: 7 35
Other in-term studies: 0 0
Project: 0 0
Homework: 3,6,9,12 25
Quiz: 0 0
Final exam: 16 40
  Total weight:
(%)
   Workload Up
Activity Duration (Hours per week) Total number of weeks Total hours in term
Courses (Face-to-face teaching): 3 14
Own studies outside class: 3 14
Practice, Recitation: 0 0
Homework: 8 8
Term project: 0 0
Term project presentation: 0 0
Quiz: 0 0
Own study for mid-term exam: 12 1
Mid-term: 1 1
Personal studies for final exam: 20 1
Final exam: 2 1
    Total workload:
    Total ECTS credits:
*
  * ECTS credit is calculated by dividing total workload by 25.
(1 ECTS = 25 work hours)
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