Kuwait University College of Business Administration Quantitative Methods and Information System Department
Syllabus
QM# Selected Topics Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques Fall 2007
Instructor: Dr. Aboul Ella Hassanien
Email: [email protected] Web site: http://www.cba.edu.kw/abo Kuwait University College of Business Administration Quantitative Methods and Information System Department
QM# Selected Topics:
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Fall 2007
Instructor: Dr. Aboul Ella Hassanien Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: TBA
Course web page: http://www.cba.edu.kw/abo /Datamining
Required Textbook:
Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber , data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 2ed. The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems, Jim Gray, Series Editor. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Feb. 2006. ISBN 1-55860-901-6 Web site: http://www- faculty.cs.uiuc.edu/~hanj/bk2/index.html
Course Overview & Objectives:
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 element 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, pattern recognition and machine learning techniques, and reporting and visualization of the generated structures. The course will cover all these issues and will illustrate the whole process by examples of practical applications. The students will use recent Data Mining software
Course Objectives
to introduce students to the basic concepts and techniques of Data Mining. to develop skills of using recent data mining software for solving practical problems. to gain experience of doing independent study and research.
2 Required Software
Weka is a set of software for machine learning and data mining developed. Weka is open source software issued under the GNU General Public License. Download the software from: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
Collections of datasets
A jarfile containing 37 classification problems, originally obtained from the UCI repository (datasets-UCI.jar, 1,190,961 Bytes). A jarfile containing 37 regression problems, obtained from various sources (datasets-numeric.jar, 169,344 Bytes). A jarfile containing 6 agricultural datasets obtained from agricultural researchers in New Zealand (agridatasets.jar, 31,200 Bytes). A jarfile containing 30 regression datasets collected by Luis Torgo (regression- datasets.jar, 10,090,266 Bytes). A gzip'ed tar containing UCI and UCI KDD datasets (uci-20050214.tar.gz, 15,308,385 Bytes) A gzip'ed tar containing StatLib datasets (statlib-20050214.tar.gz, 12,785,582 Bytes) A gzip'ed tar containing ordinal, real-world datasets donated by Dr. Arie Ben David (Holon Inst. of Technology/Israel) (datasets-arie_ben_david.tar.gz, 11,348 Bytes) A zip file containing 19 multi-class (1-of-n) text datasets donated by George Forman/Hewlett-Packard Labs (19MclassTextWc.zip, 14,084,828 Bytes)
Assessment
Course assessment will be based on the combination of the following:
Assignment Final Mark Due Date Term Test 1 25 TBA Final exam 40 TBA Quiz, assignments, reports, project, case study, etc. 35 TOTAL 100
3 Tentative Schedule Wk topics Chapter-1: Introduction pages 1,2 1.1 What Motivated Data Mining? Why Is It Important ………………………………. 1 1.2 What Is Data Mining? ……………………………………………………………... 5 1.3 Data Mining—On What Kind of Data? ………………………………………….. 9 1.4 Data Mining Functionalities—What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined? …………. 21 1.4.1 Concept/Class Description: Characterization and Discrimination …………….. 23 1.4.2 Mining Frequent Patterns, Associations, and Correlations …………………….. 1.4.3 Classification and Prediction ……………………………………………………. 24 1.4.4 Cluster Analysis ………………………………………………………………… 25 1.4.5 Outlier Analysis ……………………………………………………………….. 26 1.6 Classification of Data Mining Systems ………………………………………… 29 1.7 Data Mining Task Primitives ………………………………………………… 31 1.8 Integration of a Data Mining System with a Database or Warehouse System ….. 34 1.9 Major Issues in Data Mining……………………………………………………… 36
Chapter-2: Data Preprocessing
3,4 2.1 Why Preprocess the Data? 48 2.2 Descriptive Data Summarization 51 2.2.1 Measuring the Central Tendency 51 2.2.2 Measuring the Dispersion of Data 53 2.2.3 Graphic Displays of Basic Descriptive Data Summaries 56 2.3 Data Cleaning 61 2.3.1 Missing Values 61 2.3.2 Noisy Data 62 2.3.3 Data Cleaning as a Process 65 2.4 Data Integration and Transformation 67 2.4.1 Data Integration 67 2.4.2 Data Transformation 70 2.5 Data Reduction 72 2.5.1 Data Cube Aggregation 73 2.5.2 Attribute Subset Selection 75 2.5.3 Dimensionality Reduction 77 Introduction to WEKA Software (lab work) Chapter-5: Mining Frequent Patterns, Associations, and Correlations
5,6 5.1 Basic Concepts and a Road Map 227 5.1.1 Market Basket Analysis: A Motivating Example 228 5.1.2 Frequent Itemsets, Closed Itemsets, and Association Rules 230 5.1.3 Frequent Pattern Mining: A Road Map 232 5.2 Efficient and Scalable Frequent Itemset Mining Methods 234 5.2.1 The Apriori Algorithm: Finding Frequent Itemsets Using Candidate Generation 234 5.2.2 Generating Association Rules from Frequent Itemsets 239 5.2.3 Improving the Efficiency of Apriori 240 5.2.4 Mining Frequent Itemsets without Candidate Generation 242 5.2.5 Mining Frequent Itemsets Using Vertical Data Format 245 5.2.6 Mining Closed Frequent Itemsets 248 5.3 Mining Various Kinds of Association Rules 250 5.3.1 Mining Multilevel Association Rules 250 5.3.2 Mining Multidimensional Association Rules 254 from Relational Databases and Data Warehouses 259
4 5.4 From Association Mining to Correlation Analysis 260 5.4.1 Strong Rules Are Not Necessarily Interesting: An Example 261 5.4.2 From Association Analysis to Correlation Analysis 265 5.5 Constraint-Based Association Mining 266 5.5.1 Metarule-Guided Mining of Association Rules 267 5.5.2 Constraint Pushing: Mining Guided by Rule Constraints Midterm exam, will covers chapters 1,2, and 5 Chapter-6: Classification and Prediction
6.1 What Is Classification? What Is Prediction? 285 7,8, 6.2 Issues Regarding Classification and Prediction 289 9 6.2.1 Preparing the Data for Classification and Prediction 289 6.2.2 Comparing Classification and Prediction Methods 290 6.3 Classification by Decision Tree Induction 291 6.3.1 Decision Tree Induction 292 6.3.2 Attribute Selection Measures 296 6.3.3 Tree Pruning 304 6.3.4 Scalability and Decision Tree Induction 306 6.4 Bayesian Classification 310 6.4.1 Bayes’ Theorem 310 6.4.2 Naïve Bayesian Classification 311 6.4.3 Bayesian Belief Networks 315 6.4.4 Training Bayesian Belief Networks 317 6.5 Rule-Based Classification 318 6.5.1 Using IF-THEN Rules for Classification 319 6.5.2 Rule Extraction from a Decision Tree 321 6.5.3 Rule Induction Using a Sequential Covering Algorithm 322 6.11 Prediction 354 6.11.1 Linear Regression 355 6.11.2 Nonlinear Regression 357 6.11.3 Other Regression-Based Methods 358
Chapter 10 Mining Object, Spatial, Multimedia, Text, andWeb Data
Multimedia Data Mining 607 10.3.1 Similarity Search in Multimedia Data 608 10.3.2 Multidimensional Analysis of Multimedia Data 609 10.3.3 Classification and Prediction Analysis of Multimedia Data 611 10.3.4 Mining Associations in Multimedia Data 612 10.3.5 Audio and Video Data Mining 613 10.4 Text Mining 614 10.4.1 Text Data Analysis and Information Retrieval 615 10.4.2 Dimensionality Reduction for Text 621 10.4.3 Text Mining Approaches 624 10.5 Mining theWorld WideWeb 628 10.5.1 Mining the Web Page Layout Structure 630 10.5.2 Mining the Web’s Link Structures to Identify 631 Authoritative Web Pages 637 10.5.3 Mining Multimedia Data on the Web 638 10.5.4 Automatic Classification of Web Documents 10.5.5 Web Usage Mining
Final Exam will cover chapter-1, 6 and 10
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