csc420

Data Warehousing and Data Mining

Exam Preparation: 15 hours
Deep Understanding: 50 hours
Subject Code CSC 410
Credit Hours 3 Hours
Nature Theory + Lab
Full Marks 60 + 20 + 20
Pass Marks 24 + 8 + 8
Description

This course introduces advanced aspects of data warehousing and data mining, encompassing the principles, research results and commercial application of the current technologies.

Objective

Course Contents

5 Hours

Lifecycle of data, Types of data, Data warehouse and data warehousing, Differences between operational database and data warehouse, A multidimensional data model, OLAP operation in multidimensional data model, Conceptual modeling of data warehouse, Architecture of data warehouse, Data warehouse implementation, Data marts, Components of data warehouse, Need for data warehousing, Trends in data warehousing

2 Hours

Motivation for data mining, Introduction to data mining system, Data mining functionalities, KDD, Data object and attribute types, Statistical description of data, Issues and Applications

3 Hours

Data cleaning, Data integration and transformation, Data reduction, Data discretization and Concept Hierarchy Generation, Data mining primitives

4 Hours

Efficient method for data cube computation, Cube materialization (Full cube, Iceberg cube, Closed cube, Shell cube), General strategies for cube computation, Attribute oriented induction for data characterization, Mining class comparison, Discriminating between different classes

6 Hours

Frequent patterns, Market basket analysis, Frequent itemsets, closed itemsets, association rules, Types of association rule (Single dimensional, multidimensional, multilevel, quantitative), Finding frequent itemset (Apriori algorithm, FP growth), Generating association rules from frequent itemset, Limitation and improving Apriori, From Association Mining to Correlation Analysis, Lift

10 Hours

Definition (Classification, Prediction), Learning and testing of classification, Classification by decision tree induction, ID3 as attribute selection algorithm, Bayesian classification, Laplace smoothing, Classification by backpropagation, Rule based classifier (Decision tree to rules, rule coverage and accuracy, efficient of rule simplification), Support vector machine, Evaluating accuracy (precision, recall, f-measure), Issues in classification, Overfitting and underfitting, K-fold cross validation, Comparing two classifier (McNemar’s test)

8 Hours

Types of data in cluster analysis, Similarity and dissimilarity between objects, Clustering techniques: Partitioning (k-means, k-means++, Mini-Batch k-means, k-medoids), Hierarchical (Agglomerative and Divisive), Density based (DBSCAN), Outlier analysis

5 Hours

Graph mining, Why graph mining, Graph mining algorithm (Beam search, Inductive logic programming), Social network analysis, Link mining, Friends of friends, Degree assortativity, Signed network (Theory of structured balance, Theory of status, Conflict between the theory of balance and status), Trust in a network (Atomic propagation, Propagation of distrust, Iterative propagation), Predicting positive and negative links

2 Hours

Spatial data mining, Spatial data cube, Mining spatial association, Multimedia data mining, Similarity search in multimedia data, Mining association in multimedia data, Introduction to text mining, natural language processing and information extraction, Web mining (Web content mining, Web structure mining, Web usage mining)

Laboratory Works

Implementing data preprocessing and cleaning, classification, clustering, association algorithms in any programming language, and data visualization through data mining tools.

Books

Textbooks

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd ed., Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, and Jian Pei, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011

Reference Books

Introduction to Data Mining, 2nd ed., Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, Anuj Karpatne, Vipin Kumar, Pearson, 2019
Mining of Massive Datasets, Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ullman, 2014