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This is the official webpage hosting the materials for the Data Mining course at the Jožef Stefan IPS. Here you can find the main materials, past projects, course schedule and more. For any questions, please write to us.

In the 1960s, statisticians and economists used terms like data fishing or data dredging to refer to what they considered the bad practice of analyzing data without an a-priori hypothesis. The term "data mining" was used in a similarly critical way by economist Michael Lovell in an article published in the Review of Economic Studies in 1983. Lovell indicates that the practice "masquerades under a variety of aliases, ranging from "experimentation" (positive) to "fishing" or "snooping" (negative). The term data mining appeared around 1990 in the database community, generally with positive connotations. For a short time in 1980s, a phrase "database mining"™, was used, but since it was trademarked by HNC, a San Diego-based company, to pitch their Database Mining Workstation; researchers consequently turned to data mining. Other terms used include data archaeology, information harvesting, information discovery, knowledge extraction, etc. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro coined the term "knowledge discovery in databases" for the first workshop on the same topic (KDD-1989) and this term became more popular in AI and machine learning community. However, the term data mining became more popular in the business and press communities. Currently, the terms data mining and knowledge discovery are used interchangeably.


Schedule

Below you can find the current schedule. Please, be present, if possible, at all lessons/labs. (to be added)
Date Time Room Professor
08.11.2023 15:00 - 19:00 Teslova lecture room Lavrač Nada, Škrlj Blaž
15.11.2023 17:00 - 19:00 Teslova lecture room Škrlj Blaž
22.11.2023 15:00 - 18:00 Teslova lecture room Bojan Cestnik
06.12.2023 15:00 - 17:00 Teslova lecture room Dunja Mladenič
13.12.2023 15:00 - 17:00 Teslova lecture room Dunja Mladenič
20.12.2023 15:00 - 16:00 Teslova lecture room Lavrač Nada, Škrlj Blaž
20.12.2023 16:00 - 17:00 Teslove lecture room Erik Novak
17.01.2022 15:00 - 17:00 Teslova lecture room Mladenić Dunja, Erik Novak

Course Materials

Here you can find the relevant course materials. Will be added as the year progresses.

Nada Lavrač

The materials are provided as a collection of slides. Please, feel free to print them prior to attending the lectures if needed.
The collection of lecture notes.

Bojan Cestnik

The materials are available at the following address.

Blaž Škrlj

The labs are provided both as Orange3 workflows and short theoretical introductions to core concepts.
The collection of labs-related materials.

Course Requirements

This section includes the course requirements, stated systematically. The student must fullfil all of the stated requirements in order to pass. The requirements are as follows.

Main requirements

  • Attending lectures
  • Data mining seminar from advanced data mining topics
    • Data analysis of your own data in Orange or by using other data mining tools
    • Half a page seminar proposal on written exam day
    • Deliver a 4 pages written report (printed and electronic copy) in Information Society paper format
      on seminar presentations day (use paper template and guidelines)
    • Oral presentation of seminar results (10 minutes for presentation + 5 minutes discussion, use slides template)

Useful links


(2023) Created by Blaž Škrlj and Petra Kralj Novak.
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