Academic Catalog

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.