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Postgraduate Course: Data Mining and Exploration (INFR11007)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Informatics CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThe aim of this course is to discuss modern techniques for analyzing, interpreting, visualizing and exploiting the data that is captured in scientific and commercial environments. The course will develop the ideas taught in various machine learning courses and discuss the issues in applying them to real-world data sets, as well as teaching about other techniques and data-visualization methods. The course will also feature case-study presentations and each student will undertake a mini-project on a real-world dataset.
Course description The course will consist of two parts, the first part being a series of lectures on what is outlined below. It is anticipated that there will also be one or two guest lectures from data mining practitioners.

The second part will consist of student presentations of papers relating to relevant topics. Students will also carry out a practical mini-project on a real-world dataset. For both paper presentations and mini-projects, lists of suggestions will be available, but students may also propose their own, subject to approval from the instructor.

* Introduction, overview
* Data preprocessing and cleaning, dealing with missing data
* Data visualization, exploratory data analysis
* Data mining techniques
* Predictive modelling techniques (e.g. SVMs)
* Performance evaluation (e.g. ROC curves)
* Issues relating to large data sets
* Application areas, e.g. text mining, collaborative filtering, retrieval-by-content, web mining, bioinformatics data, astronomy data

Relevant QAA Computing Curriculum Sections: Artificial Intelligence
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (INFR11130) OR Introductory Applied Machine Learning (INFR11182)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements This course is open to all Informatics students including those on joint degrees. For external students where this course is not listed in your DPT, please seek special permission from the course organiser.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2019/20, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 20, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 4, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 72 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 50 %, Coursework 50 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Two items, (1) the presentation of research paper on data mining to the class and (2) a mini-project on one dataset chosen from a list of datasets selected by the instructor.

You should expect to spend approximately 50 hours on the coursework for this course.

If delivered in semester 1, this course will have an option for semester 1 only visiting undergraduate students, providing assessment prior to the end of the calendar year.
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Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)2:00
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Describe the data mining/analysis process in overview, and demonstrate assessment of the challenges of a given data mining project.
  2. Describe methods used for exploratory data analysis, predictive modelling and performance evaluation.
  3. Critical evaluation of papers presented in the second part of the course.
  4. In the mini-project, demonstrate the ability to conduct experimental investigations and draw valid conclusions from them.
  5. Demonstrate use of data mining packages/computational environments in the mini-project phase.
Reading List
Provided on course homepage.
Additional Information
Course URL http://course.inf.ed.ac.uk/dme
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Contacts
Course organiserDr Arno Onken
Tel: (0131 6)51 3254
Email: aonken@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Lindsay Seal
Tel: (0131 6)50 2701
Email: lindsay.seal@ed.ac.uk
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