Description

Data Mining studies algorithms and computational paradigms that allow computers to find patterns and regularities in databases, perform prediction and forecasting and generally improve their performance through interaction with data. It is currently regarded as the key elements of a more general process called Knowledge Discovery that deals with extracting useful knowledge from raw data. The knowledge discovery process includes data selection, cleaning, coding, using different statistical and machine learning techniques, and visualization of the generated structures. The course will cover all these issues and will illustrate the whole process with examples. Special emphasis will be given to the Machine Learning methods as they provide real knowledge discovery tools. Important related technologies, such as data warehousing and online analytical processing (OLAP), will be also discussed. The students will use recent Data Mining software.