Information for perspective students: Up-to-date information about the course will be added to this page by 31.08.2023. Below you can see slides from the previous year. Testing procedures will change! The course is open to students with valid TalTech UniID! The course targets M.Sc. curricula students. It is expected that the students are familiar with the Calculus, Linear algebra, Probability, Statistics and possess basic to intermediate knowledge of at least one programming language. This course is not recommended for students of B.Sc. curricula.

Fall 2023

ITI8730: Data Mining and network analysis

Old code for this course is IDN0110

Taught by: Sven Nõmm

EAP: 6.0

Lectures: Tuesdays 12:15 - 13:45 ICT-A1

Labs (practices): Thursdays 14:00 - 15:30 ICT-404

Link to join MS Teams

Consultation: by appointment only Please do not hesitate to ask for appointment!!! For communication please use the following e-mail: sven.nomm@taltech.ee

Prerequisites to join the course

Students are expected to be familiar with the foundations of Calculus, Linear algebra, Probability theory and Statistics and possess the knowledge of at least one programming language.

Overview

The course aims to provide knowledge of theory behind different methods of data mining and develop practical skills in applying those methods on practice. Is is spanned around four "super problems" of data mining:

Clustering
Classification
Association pattern mining
Outlier analysis

Main topics of the course:

Data types and Data Preparation
Similarity and Distances, Association Pattern Mining,
Cluster Analysis, Classification, Outlier analysis
Data streams, Text Data, Time Series, Discrete Sequences,
Spatial Data, Graph Data, Web Data, Social Network Analysis

Evaluation

2x mandatory closed book tests. Each test gives 10% of the final grade. One make-up attempt for each test.
3x mandatory home assignments (Computational assignment +short write up.) Each assignment gives 10% of the final grade. Late (after deadline) assignments are accepted with penalty of 10% for each day except Saturdays and Sundays.
final exam (gives 50 % of the final grade): Written report on assigned topic + discussion with lecturer.

Exam prerequisites: All 2 closed book tests are accepted (graded as 51 or higher), all 3 home assignments are accepted (graded as 51 or higher).

Home assignments, code examples, data files and useful links will be distributed by means of Moodle environment. Course enrollment process in Moodle TBA.