Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 1

VO (706.001)

This course discusses basics of the knowledge discovery process, data mining, and provides a basic introduction to data science. The course focuses on two main aspects of knowledge discovery: mathematical tools and a well-defined and structured knowledge discovery process consisting of a number of interactive and iterative steps. The accompanying project (KU) concentrates on programming infrastructure for manipulating large-scale data. The examples that we use in the course are mainly text-mining and recommender examples

In recent years the amount of data that we produce increased dramatically. We already produce more data than we are able to store with the current technological solutions. Therefore, making sense out of these huge amount of data, or extracting useful, valid, understandable, and novel patterns from this data is of cruicial importance. Knowledge discovery, data mining, and data science are one of the approaches to tackle this problem. The other similar, but somewhat different approaches include database technology, machine learning, or statistics.

In this course we will investigate, analyze, and discuss a well-defined process for knowledge discovery in such a large data. Apart from the process we will also discuss the mathematics needed for data mining. The main online resource for this course is TeachCenter page. Here we just provide a few adiitional resources.