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Data Mining Techniques

(Topics in Machine Learning and Data Mining)


1 – Welcome!
Dr. Kambiz Ghazinour
Fall 2016
Kent State University
© 2015 Department of Computer Science/Kambiz Ghazinour
Getting started…
• Introduction
• Course Description
• Evaluation
• Blackboard
• Course Overview

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Course Reading
• Various readings will be assigned throughout the course from papers
or the text book.
• You are expected to have read the material before the start of the
corresponding class and related additional reading is encouraged
• Textbook:
– Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and
Techniques: 3rd Edition; by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank,
Mark A. Hall
ISBN-13: 9780123748560,
Publisher: Elsevier Science,
Publication date: 1/20/2011

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Course Evaluation
• Participation 10%
– Class attendance 5%
– Engaging in discussions 5%
• Assignments, pop quizzes 20%
• Project * 60%
– Proposal 5%
– Bibliography 10%
– Presentation 15%
– Final Report 30%
• Presentation Critique 10%
Total 100%

* PhD students: Individual work


Senior undergrads and Masters students: Groups of 4
Important: Students in the
© 2015 groups
Department are marked
of Computer individually.
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Important Notice
• Assignments and Project are due at midnight
of their due date.
• Everything should be submitted electronically
on Blackboard.
• Late submission = ZERO.
• Plagiarism = F for the course

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Teacher Assistant
• TBA
• All the arrangements with respect to the
assignments, extensions, group organization,
projects, submissions, etc. should be set with the
Teacher Assistant of the course.
• Only if the students cannot resolve the issue with
the Teacher Assistant, they shall contact me.

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Blackboard
• “Current” information is available on blackboard
only under: 63015-001
- Please let me know if you do not have access!
• I use Blackboard to communicate to the class about
any changes:
– Due dates
– Research insights
– Class announcements
It is your responsibility to check blackboard regularly.
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Course Outline (1/4)
• Module 1 – Introduction
– Real world examples
• Amazon suggests which books you might be interested in.
• Police force in Chicago is predicting in which neighborhood the crime is about to
happen
• Discovering the connection between a symptom and an illness
– Data Mining and Machine Learning
• DM definition
• ML definition
– Why PPDM?
– Ethics
• Module 2 – Data Collection and Sanitization
– Input type
– Data collection
– Data cleansing
– Output

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Course Outline (2/4)
• Module 3 – Data Mining
– Pattern Mining
– Clustering
– Decision tree
• Module 4 – Weka
– What is Weka?
– Why Weka?
– How to use Weka?
– Sample codes
– The explorer layout
• Module 5 – Data Mining Applications
– Data Mining in Marketing
– Social Media Mining
– Data Mining in Industry
– Data Mining in System Biology
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Course Outline (3/4)
• Module 6 – Machine Learning
– Supervised, Unsupervised, Semi-supervised Learning
– Nearest Neighbor
– Online Learning
– Naive Bayesian Classification
• Module 7 – Machine Learning Applications
– Real world applications
• Module 8 – Data Privacy
– Privacy definitions
– Privacy elements
– Privacy Taxonomy

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Course Outline (4/4)
• Module 9 – Privacy Preserving Data Mining
– Privacy challenges in data mining
– Methods to enforce privacy
– Changes in algorithms
– Data anonymization and data publishing
• Module 10 – Applications/Projects

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