2007/2008
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Knowledge Discovery and Knowledge Management in e-Science
Professor: Nada Lavrač
Assistant: Petra Kralj
| October 17, 2007 | 15:00 - 19:00 | Lectures (Lavrač) |
IPS lecture hall |
| November 8, 2007 |
15:00 - 19:00 |
Practice
(Kralj) |
Kolarjeva lecture hall |
| November 15, 2007 |
15:00 - 19:00 |
Practice
(Kralj) |
Kolarjeva lecture hall |
| November 29, 2007 |
16:00 - 20:00 |
Written exam &
seminar proposals presentations (Kralj & Lavrač) |
Seminarska soba F-5 |
| January 10, 2008 |
18:00 - 19:00 |
Written
exam (Kralj) |
IPS lecture hall |
| February 13, 2008 |
15:00 - 19:00 |
Seminar
presentations (Lavrač & Kralj) |
IPS lecture hall |
| February 27, 2008 |
17:00 - 19:00 |
Seminar
presentations (Lavrač & Kralj) |
IPS lecture hall |
| April 21, 2008 |
16:00 - 17:30 |
Written
exam and Seminar presentations (Lavrač & Kralj) |
IPS lecture hall |
Materials for the course
- Lectures, prof. Lavrač
- lecture notes 17.10.2007 (.pdf)
- Practice, Petra Kralj
- practice notes 8.11.2007 (.pdf)
- entropy and information gain (.pdf)
- naive Bayes (.pdf)
- discussion on classification 15.11.2007 (.pdf)
- practice notes 15.11.2007 (.pdf)
- evaluating numeric prediction (.pdf)
- association rules (.pdf)
- Hands on Weka, Petra Kralj
- hands on Weka notes - Classification 8.11.2007 (.pdf)
- hands on Weka notes - Numeric prediction 15.11.2007 (.pdf)
- hands on Weka notes - Descriptive DM 15.11.2007 (.pdf)
- datasets (.zip)
Useful links
- Weka
- Notepad++
Course requirements:
- Written exam (1/2 of the final grade)
- 45 minutes of time
- 4 tasks (2 computational, 2 theoretical)
- Literature is not allowed
- Each student can bring one hand-written A4 sheet of paper and a calculator
- Seminar (1/2 of the final grade)
- Oral presentation of seminar proposals (max 4 minutes per student, use slides template,
file naming convention DM2007-SurnameFirstname.ppt)
- Register for the seminar presentations as you would usually do for an exam
- Deliver a 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 and file naming convention DM2007-SurnameFirstname.ppt
Examples of seminars:
- Janez Bucik (.pdf)
Microsoft stock quotes dependency analysis
- Matej Gašperin (.pdf)
Case study on the use of data minig techniques in food science using honey samples
- Valentin Koblar (in Slovene .pdf)
Napoved menjalnega tečaja ameriškega dolarja na podlagi menjalnih tečajev tujih valut
Ideas for seminars
- Analyze some data where you are the domain expert, use at least two algorithms
- Find some interesting data to analyze, possible sources:
- Statistični urad Republike Slovenije
- Ljubljanska borza d.d.
- Banka Slovenije
- World Health Organization
- Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware
Templates
- presentation template (.pot)
- paper template (.doc)
- paper guidelines (.doc)
Link to last year's web page - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 06/07