Course Objectives:: University of Mumbai, Information Technology (Semester V and VI) (Rev-2012)

Teaching Scheme Credits Assigned
Course Course
Code Name Theory Practical Tutorial Theory Practical/Oral Tutorial Total
TEITC604 Data Mining 04 02 --- 04 01 --- 05

and Business Hr/Week Hr/Week
Intelligence
Examination Scheme
Theory Marks
Course
Course Name Internal assessment Term
Code End Practical Oral Total
Sem. Work
Avg. of
Test1 Test 2 Exam
2 Tests
Data Mining
TEITC604 and Business 20 20 20 80 25 --- 25 150
Intelligence
Course Objectives:
1. To introduce the concept of data Mining as an important tool for enterprise data
management and as a cutting edge technology for building competitive advantage.
2. To enable students to effectively identify sources of data and process it for data mining.
3. To make students well versed in all data mining algorithms, methods, and tools.
4. Learning how to gather and analyse large sets of data to gain useful business
understanding.
5. To impart skills that can enable students to approach business problems analytically by
identifying opportunities to derive business value from data.
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Course Outcomes: On successful completion of this course students should be able:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of data mining and the principles of

business intelligence
2. Able to prepare the data needed for data mining algorithms in terms of attributes and
class inputs, training, validating, and testing files.
3. Implement the appropriate data mining methods like classification, clustering or

association mining on large data sets.
4. Define and apply metrics to measure the performance of various data mining algorithms.
5. Apply BI to solve practical problems : Analyze the problem domain, use the data
collected in enterprise apply the appropriate data mining technique, interpret and
visualize the results and provide decision support.
DETAILED SYLLABUS:
Sr. Module Detailed Content Hours

No.
1 Introduction to What is Data Mining; Kind of patterns to be mined; 02
Data Mining Technologies used; Major issues in Data Mining
2 Data Exploration Types of Attributes; Statistical Description of Data; 04

Data Visualization; Measuring similarity and
dissimilarity.
3 Data Why Preprocessing? Data Cleaning; Data Integration; 04

Preprocessing Data Reduction: Attribute subset selection, Histograms,
Clustering and Sampling; Data Transformation & Data
Discretization: Normalization, Binning, Histogram
Analysis and Concept hierarchy generation.
4 Classification Basic Concepts; 08
Classification methods:
1. Decision Tree Induction: Attribute Selection
Measures, Tree pruning.
2. Bayesian Classification: Nave Bayes Classifier.
Prediction: Structure of regression models; Simple
linear regression, Multiple linear regression.
Model Evaluation & Selection: Accuracy and Error
measures, Holdout, Random Sampling, Cross
Validation, Bootstrap; Comparing Classifier
performance using ROC Curves.
Combining Classifiers: Bagging, Boosting, Random

Forests.
5 Clustering Cluster Analysis: Basic Concepts; 08

Partitioning Methods: K-Means, K-Mediods;
Hierarchical Methods: Agglomerative, Divisive,
BIRCH;
Density-Based Methods: DBSCAN, OPTICS
6 Outlier Analysis What are outliers? Types, Challenges; 02
Outlier Detection Methods: Supervised, Semi-
Supervised, Unsupervised, Proximity based, Clustering
Based.
7 Frequent Pattern Market Basket Analysis, Frequent Itemsets, Closed 08
Mining Itemsets, and Association Rules;
Frequent Pattern Mining, Efficient and Scalable
Frequent Itemset Mining Methods, The Apriori
Algorithm for finding Frequent Itemsets Using
Candidate Generation, Generating Association Rules
from Frequent Itemsets, Improving the Efficiency of
Apriori,
A pattern growth approach for mining Frequent
Itemsets;
Mining Frequent itemsets using vertical data formats;
Mining closed and maximal patterns;
Introduction to Mining Multilevel Association Rules
and Multidimensional Association Rules; From
Association Mining to Correlation Analysis, Pattern
Evaluation Measures; Introduction to Constraint-Based
Association Mining.
8 Business What is BI? Effective and timely decisions; Data, 03
Intelligence information and knowledge; The role of mathematical
models; Business intelligence architectures; Enabling
factors in business intelligence project; Development of
a business intelligence system; Ethics and business
intelligence
9 Decision Support Representation of the decision-making process; 03
System Evolution of information systems; Definition of
decision support system; Development of a decision
support system.
10 BI Applications Data mining for business Applications like Fraud 06
Detection, Clickstream Mining, Market Segmentation,
retail industry, telecommunications industry, banking &
finance CRM etc

Text Books:
1. Han, Kamber, "Data Mining Concepts and Techniques", Morgan Kaufmann 3nd Edition
2. G. Shmueli, N.R. Patel, P.C. Bruce, Data Mining for Business Intelligence: Concepts,
Techniques, and Applications in Microsoft Office Excel with XLMiner, 1st Edition, Wiley
India.
3. Business Intelligence: Data Mining and Optimization for Decision Making by Carlo
Vercellis ,Wiley India Publications
Reference Books:
1. P. N. Tan, M. Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining, Pearson Education

2. Michael Berry and Gordon Linoff Data Mining Techniques, 2nd Edition Wiley
Publications.
3. Michael Berry and Gordon Linoff Mastering Data Mining- Art & science of CRM, Wiley
Student Edition
4. Vikram Pudi & Radha Krishna, Data Mining, Oxford Higher Education.
Oral Exam:
An oral exam will be held based on the above syllabus.
Term work:
Assign a case study for group of 2/3 students and each group to perform the following
experiments on their case-study; Each group should perform the exercises on a large dataset
created by them.
Suggested Practical List:
1) 2 tutorials
a) Solving exercises in Data Exploration
b) Solving exercises in Data preprocessing
2) Use WEKA to implement the following Classifiers - Decision tree, Nave Bayes, Random
Forest;
3) Implementation of any one classifier using languages like JAVA;
4) Use WEKA to implement the following Clustering Algorithms K-means, Agglomerative,
Divisive;
5) Implementation of any one clustering algorithm using languages like JAVA;

6) Use Weka to implement Association Mining using Apriori, FPM;
7) Detailed study of any one BI tool like Oracle BI, SPSS, Clementine, and XLMiner etc.
(paper Assignment)
8) Business Intelligence Mini Project: Each group assigned one new case study for this; A BI
report must be prepared outlining the following steps:
a) Problem definition, Identifying which data mining task is needed
b) Identify and use a standard data mining dataset available for the problem. Some links for
data mining datasets are: WEKA site, UCI Machine Learning Repository, KDD site,
KDD Cup etc.
c) Implement the data mining algorithm of choice
d) Interpret and visualize the results
e) Provide clearly the BI decision that is to be taken as a result of mining.
Theory Examination:
1. Question paper will comprise of 6 questions, each carrying 20 marks.
2. Total 4 questions need to be solved.
3. Q.1 will be compulsory, based on entire syllabus wherein sub questions of 2 to 3 marks
will be asked.
4. Remaining question will be randomly selected from all the modules.
5. Weightage of marks should be proportional to number of hours assigned to each module.

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Teaching Scheme Credits Assigned

TEITC604 Data Mining 04 02 --- 04 01 --- 05

University of Mumbai, Information Technology (semester V and VI) (Rev-2012) Page 43

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of data mining and the principles of

3. Implement the appropriate data mining methods like classification, clustering or

Sr. Module Detailed Content Hours

2 Data Exploration Types of Attributes; Statistical Description of Data; 04

3 Data Why Preprocessing? Data Cleaning; Data Integration; 04

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5 Clustering Cluster Analysis: Basic Concepts; 08

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1. P. N. Tan, M. Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining, Pearson Education

An oral exam will be held based on the above syllabus.

Suggested Practical List:

a) Solving exercises in Data Exploration

b) Solving exercises in Data preprocessing

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a) Problem definition, Identifying which data mining task is needed

c) Implement the data mining algorithm of choice

d) Interpret and visualize the results

e) Provide clearly the BI decision that is to be taken as a result of mining.

1. Question paper will comprise of 6 questions, each carrying 20 marks.

2. Total 4 questions need to be solved.

4. Remaining question will be randomly selected from all the modules.

5. Weightage of marks should be proportional to number of hours assigned to each module.

University of Mumbai, Information Technology (semester V and VI) (Rev-2012) Page 47

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