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COURSE CONTENTS

 

Unit 1

DATA MINING Introduction – Data – Types of Data – Data Mining Functionalities –Classification of Data Mining Systems – Issues –Data Preprocessing

ASSOCIATION RULE MINING Mining Frequent Patterns   –   Apriori Algorithm Description, -

Unit 2

ASSOCIATION RULE MINING – Two Illustrative Examples- Mining various Kinds of Association Rules, Correlation Analysis – Constraint Based Association Mining.

CLASSIFICATION AND PREDICTION Basic Concepts - Decision Tree Induction - Bayesian Classification – Rule Based Classification

Unit 3

CLASSIFICATION AND PREDICTION– Classification by Back propagation, Basic Concepts - Decision Tree Induction - Bayesian Classification, Rule Based Classification – Classification by Back propagation – Support Vector Machines – Associative Classification – Lazy Learners – Other Classification Methods – Prediction. C4.5 Algorithm Description- C4.5 Features - Two Illustrative Examples.

Unit 4

CLUSTERING AND TRENDS IN DATA MINING Cluster Analysis - Types of Data – Partitioning Methods: K-means, K-mediods, PAM, CLARA, CLARANS – Hierarchical Methods: AGNES, DIANA, Density-Based Methods: DBSCAN –Grid Based Methods – STING, CLIQUE, Data Mining Applications.

Unit 5

MINING Mining the World Wide Web - Page Rank Algorithm, Text mining, Mining Time Series Data, The CART Algorithm Briefly Stated, Ensemble methods-Increasing the Accuracy, Mining genomic data.

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REFERENCE BOOKS

  1. Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber: Data Mining Concepts and Techniques, Elsevier, 2ndEdition, 2009.

  2. Xindong Wu and Vipin Kumar: The top ten Algorithms in Data Mining, Chapman and Hall/CRC press.

  3. Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar, “Introduction to Data Mining”, Person Education, 2007.

  4. K.P. Soman, Shyam Diwakar and V. Aja, “Insight into Data Mining Theory and Practice”, Eastern Economy Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2006.

  5. G. K. Gupta, “Introduction to Data Mining with Case Studies”, Eastern Economy Edition, Prentice Hallof India, 2006.

  6. Daniel T.Larose, “Data Mining Methods and Models”, Wiley-Interscience, 2006.

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