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Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (edX)

Offered by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - HKUST, HKUSTx,
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (edX)

Learn how to discover knowledge in data via data mining. Data mining has recently emerged as a major field of research and applications. Aimed at extracting useful and interesting knowledge from large data repositories such as databases and the Web, data mining integrates techniques from the fields of database, statistics and AI.

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This course is part of the Big Data Technology MicroMasters program.
What you'll learn

  • Apply the clustering techniques to find clusters within the data
  • Use the classification techniques to conduct classification and predication
  • Use the knowledge of frequest pattern mining to discover patterns from the data
  • Learn data warehouse techniques for data analysis

Syllabus

  • Association
  • Clustering
  • Classification
  • Data Warehouse
  • Data Mining over Data Streams
  • Web Database
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