CP3403 - Data Mining
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | College of Business, Law & Governance |
Students will be introduced in this subject to fundamental data mining and big data concepts, technologies, and applications. Topics include data mining, data warehousing, big data analytics, data visualisation, pre-processing, clustering, classification and association rules mining. Students will gain hands-on experience with popular data mining tools and develop skills in practical data mining and big data analytics.
Learning Outcomes
- explain the notion of big data, information intelligence, data mining, data profiling, data cleaning and data integration and warehousing;
- analyse and apply data mining techniques and tools;
- examine the working principles of data mining and knowledge discovery in databases;
- relate intelligence informatics to data warehousing, big data and data mining;
- assess the potential benefits, risks, issues and challenges associated with big data and data mining.
| Prerequisites: | 6 CP OF CP SUBJECTS AND 12 CP OF SUBJECTS |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | CP3300 CP5634 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 23-Mar-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Joanne Lee |
| Lecturer: | Assoc. Professor Hossein Ghodosi. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); assignment 1 (30%); practicals (20%); presentation (10%). |
| External, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 23-Mar-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Joanne Lee |
| Lecturer: | Assoc. Professor Hossein Ghodosi. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); assignment 1 (30%); practicals (20%); presentation (10%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 23-Mar-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Joanne Lee |
| Lecturer: | Assoc. Professor Hossein Ghodosi. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); assignment 1 (30%); practicals (20%); presentation (10%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 07-Dec-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Joanne Lee |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); assignment 1 (30%); practicals (20%); presentation (10%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 06-Apr-2017 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Joanne Lee |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); assignment 1 (30%); practicals (20%); presentation (10%). |
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