ADVANCED DATA MINING (COSCI 212)

Data Mining is widely used in business and various sectors to enable organizations and individuals make better decisions and improve processes, systems and outcomes. This course is a continuation of Data Mining and Wrangling (DMW) and includes three main topics: advanced cluster analysis, outlier analysis and recommender systems. Cluster analysis will be revisited to include density-and grid-based clustering algorithms as well as scalable and high-dimensional clustering. The fundamentals of outlier analysis, a useful technique for many frequently encountered problems, will be discussed along with its applications. This course also introduces recommender systems that go beyond what is discussed in BDCC: model-based, content-based and knowledge-based recommender systems. By the end of the course, students are expected to present their completed project that would make use of the topics discussed in the course.