Faculty of Information Technology – Islamic University Gaza

Data Mining

 SDEV 3304

Course Syllabus

General Information

• Semester: 2^nd Semester 2020.
• Department: Department of Software Engineering.
• Instructor: Dr. Iyad Husni Alshami,
  • phone: 00970 8 2860700 Ext:2960
  • email: eshami@iugaza.edu.ps
  • office hours: Saturday – Wednesday 11:00 – 13:00
  • office location: I305
• Credits: 3Hrs.
• Meeting time and locations:
• 201: ST 8:00 – 9:30, I101
• 101: ST 9:30 – 11:00, I116

Course’s Description

This course has been designed to give students an introduction to data mining and hands on experience with all phases of the data mining process using real data and modern tools. It covers many topics such as data formats, and cleaning; make prediction using supervised and unsupervised learning using Python and other tools, and sound evaluation methods; and data/knowledge visualization.

Course’s Objectives

This course is designed to achieve a number of goals for each student such as:

• Providing the fundamental understanding of data mining in order to extract hidden knowledge.
• Exploring the different data mining tasks to extract knowledge:
  • Classification,
  • Clustering,
  • Association Rules extraction, and
  • Outlier detection.
• Practicing the data mining project phases
• Presenting the data in the early stage of data mining projects as well as the extracted knowledge.
• Provide the students the latest hot topics in data mining field.
• Strengthen the team work

Course’s Outcome

By the end of this course the students should be able to:

• Identify the meaning of data mining, describe the suitable data for data mining projects, list/identify at least five different data mining tasks and evaluate the extracted knowledge for each task.
• Collect and prepare data set suitably for data mining projects.
• Use machine learning techniques to perform the different data mining tasks.
• Analysis and build data mining projects individually or as a team member/leader as well .
• Adopt the ethics of profession with the sensitive personal data

Text book  & References

• Text Book: “Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques”, 4^th edition by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Morgan Kaufmann ©2017.

• Additional Books:
  • “Data Mining – Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques”, 4th  edition by Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank, Elsevier © 2016. 
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Course’s Outline “topics that will be covered”

Teaching methods

• Lectures,
• Discussion groups,
• Team work,
• Using Videos and Presentations

Evaluation criteria “Grades”

• 10% Quizzes & Assignments,
• 10% Participating in Course’s Activities
• 20% Midterm Exam
• 20% Final Project
• 40% Final Exam.

Course’s Tools

• PyCharm – Python 3.6
• Rapidminer Studio

Course’s Rules

• The course contents and grading can be changed as necessary.
• Missing more than 25% of lectures will provide you “W”.
• There is no predetermined schedule for quizzes.
• No excuses for missing the quizzes or the assignments.