ridge regression, neural networks, radial basis function (RBF) models, Gaussian process regression, etc.
Week 8-9 Association analysis: concepts and techniques (4 credit hours)
These lectures introduce the concepts and techniques for association analysis, including frequent itemset generation,
rule generation, pattern evaluation methods, etc.
Week 10-11 Cluster analysis: concepts and algorithms (4 credit hours)
These lectures introduce the concepts and algorithms for cluster analysis, including K-means, hierarchical clustering,
density-based clustering, cluster evaluation, etc.
Week 12 Outliers detection (2 credit hours)
This lecture introduces concepts and techniques for outlier detection, including statistical approaches, proximity-based
approaches, density-based approaches, clustering-based approaches, etc.
Week 13 Introduction to text mining (2 credit hours)
This lecture briefly introduces the concepts of text mining, including term frequency, bag of words, word embedding,
TFIDF, N-Gram model, etc.
Week 14 Model evaluation (2 credit hours)
This lecture introduces several methods to evaluate different data mining models.
Week 15 Data mining in business (2 credit hours)
This lecture discusses several examples and case studies of data mining applications in business.
Week 16 Review and data mining trends (2 credit hours)
This lecture reviews the topics in this module and presents some trends of data mining.
Lab (32 credit hours)
Week 1. Introduction to Python (2 credit hours)
This lecture introduces the basic knowledge of Python and the data mining platform based on python.