Data Mining - Classification

Part of the

Pathway in Introduction to Data Mining


Learn how to formulate and solve classification problems for use in Data Mining and Business Intelligence applications such as; fraud detection, customer churning, network intrusion detection, etc... You will learn how to develop, validate and apply a data mining workflow to solve binary and non-binary classification problems. The course is self-contained, and it does not require any programming skills. Hands-on lectures are based on the KNIME open source software platform.

Attendance and Credentials

Attendance
FREE!
Attendance Certificate
FREE!

Category

Computer and Data Sciences

Training hours

45

Level

Beginner

Course Mode

Tutored

Language

English

Duration

4 weeks

Type

Online

Course Status

Soft Tutoring

Enrollments Start

Apr 4, 2016

Course Opens

Apr 22, 2016

Tutoring Starts

May 2, 2016

Tutoring Stops

Jun 30, 2016

Soft Tutoring

Jul 1, 2016

Course Closes

Not Set
By the end of this course, you will be able to: 

  • develop a Data Mining workflow for solving a classification problem, 
  • apply elementary missing replacement strategies, 
  • apply pre-processing techniques including dimensionality reduction, 
  • select and deploy the “optimal classifier” (whatever it means) also taking into account decision costs, 
  • select relevant attributes and remove not relevant and/or redundant attributes. 

You will learn all this using the KNIME open source platform, which integrates power and expressiveness of Weka, R and Java.

Basic knowledge of probability, statistics and mathematics.

  • Pang-Ning Tan, Steinbach Michael and Vipin Kumar, (2006). Introduction to Data Mining. Morgan-Kaufmann.
The course spans four weeks. Each week requires 8 to 10 hours of work. Each week consists of 5 to 7 video-lectures. Each video-lecture consists of a methodology video, a software usage video and a practice session.

You must accomplish all practice sessions associated with lectures, and then upload, to the course platform, the corresponding KNIME workflow you developed .


FABIO STELLA

FABIO STELLA

Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication