CP3403 - Data Mining

Credit points:	03
Year:	2019
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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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, , Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2019
Contact hours:	38 hours - Combined Lectures; Practicals; Lecturer directed activities.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); assignment 1 (30%); practicals (20%); presentation (10%).
, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2019
Contact hours:	0 hours
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); assignment 1 (30%); practicals (20%); presentation (10%).
Cairns, , Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2019
Contact hours:	38 hours - Combined Lectures; Practicals; Lecturer directed activities.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); assignment 1 (30%); practicals (20%); presentation (10%).
JCU Singapore, , Study Period 51
Census Date 11-Apr-2019
Contact hours:	38 hours - Combined Lectures; Practicals; Lecturer directed activities.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); assignment 1 (30%); practicals (20%); presentation (10%).
JCU Singapore, , Study Period 52
Census Date 08-Aug-2019
Contact hours:	38 hours - Combined Lectures; Practicals; Lecturer directed activities.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); assignment 1 (30%); practicals (20%); presentation (10%).

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