ION523 DATA MINING 
    
       | Course Code: | 
       9040523 | 
    
    
       | METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 
       3(3-0) | 
    
    
       | ECTS Credit: | 
       8.0 | 
    
    
       | Department: | 
       Informatics Online | 
    
    
       | Language of Instruction: | 
       English | 
    
    
       | Level of Study: | 
       Graduate | 
    
    
       | Course Coordinator: | 
       Prof.Dr. ÜNAL ERKAN MUMCUOÐLU | 
    
    
       | Offered Semester: | 
       Spring Semesters. | 
    
Course Content
The course introduces principles and techniques of data mining. It emphasizes the advantages and disadvantages of using these methods in real world systems. and provides hands-on experience. Topics include: Data Mining using Decision-Tree based classifiers. Association-Rules. Clustering methods. Neural Networks. Statistical methods (Probability. Maximum Likelihood. EM algorithm. Bayesian methods. Markov and Hidden Markov methods. Cross-Validation. Regression). Visual methods. Text Mining. Web Mining.