CP3300 - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Credit points:	03
Year:	2015
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	College of Business, Law & Governance

This subject is an introduction to principles, techniques and applications of data mining and knowledge discovery. This subject covers a broad spectrum of data mining encompassing the basics of data mining, knowledge discovery in databases, preprocessing, data warehousing, scalable clustering, classification, ensemble, exploratory data analysis, market basket analysis, association rules mining and domain specific applications.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the working principles of data mining and knowledgge discovery in databases;
• Develop data mining techniques using C++/Java;
• Analyse large datasets using data mining techniques;
• Use contemporary data mining suites.

Prerequisites:	CP1500 AND 12 CREDIT POINTS OF CP SUBJECTS
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	CP5605 CP3403 CP5634

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 27-Aug-2015
Coord/Lect:	Dr Joanne Lee.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); presentations (10%); assignments (20%); report (20%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 27-Aug-2015
Coord/Lect:	Dr Joanne Lee.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); presentations (10%); assignments (20%); report (20%).
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51
Census Date 09-Apr-2015
Coordinator:	Dr Joanne Lee
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); presentations (10%); assignments (20%); report (20%).
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53
Census Date 26-Nov-2015
Coordinator:	Dr Joanne Lee
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); presentations (10%); assignments (20%); report (20%).
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52
Census Date 30-Jul-2015
Coordinator:	Dr Joanne Lee
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); presentations (10%); assignments (20%); report (20%).
Restrictions:	An enrolment quota applies to this offering.
Beijing UT, Internal, Study Period 68
Census Date 04-Jun-2015
Coordinator:	Dr Joanne Lee
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); presentations (10%); assignments (20%); report (20%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.