SOFTWARE ENGINEERING | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
CMP4336 | Introduction to Data Mining | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi CEMAL OKAN ŞAKAR |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | In this course, data mining algorithms and computational paradigms that are used to extract useful knowledge, extract patterns and regularities in databases, and perform prediction and forecasting will be discussed. Supervised and unsupervised learning approaches will be covered with a focus on pattern discovery and cluster analysis. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1. Be able to understand Data Gathering and Pre-processing 2. Become familiar with Frequent Item Set Detection 3. Be able to understand Association Rule Mining 4. Be able to understand Classifiers, and their benefits 5. Be able to use Clustering 6. Be able to understand Clustering Evaluation |
1.Introduction to Basic Concepts 2.Data Exploration 3.Classification 4.Clustering 5.Dimensionality Reduction 6.Frequent Item Set Mining 7.Association Rule Mining |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to Basic Concepts | None |
2) | Data Exploration: Summary Statistics, Visualization, OLAP and Multi-dimensional Data Analysis | None |
3) | Data Pre-Processing, Transformation, Normalization, Standardization | None |
4) | Classification and Regression: Model Selection and Generalization, Decision Trees, Performance Evaluation | None |
5) | Classification: Bayesian Decision Theory, Parametric Classification, Naive Bayes Classifier, Instance-Based Classifiers | |
6) | Classification | None |
6) | Classification and Regression: Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines | |
7) | Midterm I | Review of all topics covered so far |
8) | Clustering: Partitioning and Hierarchical Algorithms | None |
9) | Clustering: Density-Based Algorithms | |
10) | Cluster Evaluation, Comparing Clusterings | None |
11) | Midterm II | none |
12) | Dimensionality Reduction | none |
13) | Frequent Item Set Mining | none |
14) | Association Rule Mining | none |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Introduction to Data Mining by Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar |
References: | Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, by Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber and Jian Pei |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Homework Assignments | 2 | % 20 |
Project | 1 | % 20 |
Midterms | 2 | % 20 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 32 |
Project | 5 | 15 |
Homework Assignments | 6 | 12 |
Midterms | 8 | 28 |
Final | 6 | 26 |
Total Workload | 155 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products. | |
2) | Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems. | |
3) | Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging. | |
4) | Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem. | |
5) | Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation. | |
6) | Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically. | |
7) | Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams. | |
8) | Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems. | |
9) | Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system. | |
10) | Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities. | |
11) | Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life. | |
12) | Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions. | |
13) | Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions. |