Course GMI255

Data mining

7.5 Credits
First Cycle

Main field of study: Computer Engineering, Microdata Analysis

The course has no instances planned right now

Learning outcomes for the course

Upon completion of the course, the student shall be able to:

  • Explain the basic concepts of data mining and pattern recognition
  • Summarise and interpret data with the use of descriptive statistics.
  • Explain the difference between regression techniques and classification techniques.
  • Discuss data mining ethics.
  • Understand how businesses extract extra value from data.
  • Understand the difference between descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics.
  • Describe research in the field beyond drawing from scientific papers.
  • Show an ability to work with a given dataset and apply basic algorithms to extract information.