Data Mining Syllabus
Chapter-1: Introduction to data mining
Objective: To understand the principle of Data Mining
Data Mining, Definition and Functionalities, Types of Data, Interestingness of Patterns, Major Issues in
data mining, Data objects and attribute, Data visualization.
Unit-2: Data Preprocessing
Objective: To understand Data Preprocessing Methods
Data Cleaning, Missing values, Noisy data, Data Integration, Data reduction, Attribute subset selection,
Regression, Data transformation and data discretization.
Unit-3: Association rule mining and classification
Objective: To Analyze Classification Algorithms
Efficient and Scalable Frequent Item set Mining Methods, Mining Various Kinds of Association Rules,
Association Mining to Correlation Analysis, Constraint-Based Association Mining, Issues Regarding
Classification and Prediction, Classification by Decision Tree Induction, Bayesian Classification, Rule
Based Classification, Classification by Back propagation, Support Vector Machines, Associative
Classification, Lazy Learners, Other Classification Methods, Prediction, Accuracy and Error Measures,
Evaluating the Accuracy of a Classifier or Predictor, Ensemble Methods, Model Section
Unit-4: Clustering and trends in data mining
Objective: To Analyze Clustering algorithms
Types of Data in Cluster Analysis, A Categorization of Major Clustering Methods, Partitioning Methods,
Hierarchical methods, Density-Based Methods, Grid-Based Methods, Model-Based Clustering Methods,
Clustering High-Dimensional Data, Constraint-Based Cluster Analysis, Outlier Analysis and outlier
detection methods.
Unit-5: Data mining Trends and Data Warehousing
Mining complex datatype, Data mining application, Data Warehouse and OLAP Technology for Data
Mining Data Warehouse, Multidimensional Data Model, Data Warehouse Architecture, Data Warehouse
Implementation, Further Development of Data Cube Technology, From Data Warehousing to Data
Mining.
Books:
1- Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber and Jian Pei“Data Mining Concepts and Techniques”, Third
Edition, Elsevier, 2011.