Course materials

• Lectures: prof. Lavrač
• lecture notes: slides (.pdf) , 6/page (.pdf) - corrected version
• Practice: Petra Kralj Novak (2008/10/22)
• practice notes: slides (.pdf) , 6/page (.pdf) - corrected version
• entropy and information gain (.pdf) - corrected version
• decision trees (.pdf) - corrected page no. 7 on 2008/11/24
• naive Bayes (.pdf)
• hands on Weka - part 1 (.pdf)
• datasets (.zip)
• Practice: Petra Kralj Novak (2008/11/11)
• discussion on clasification (.pdf) , 6/page (.pdf)
• practice notes: slides (.pdf) , 6/page (.pdf)
• evaluating numeric prediction (.pdf)
• hands on Weka - part 2 (.pdf)
• Practice: Petra Kralj Novak (2008/11/12)
• discussion on numeric prediction (.pdf) , 6/page (.pdf) - corrected slide no. 7 on 2008/11/24
• ROC space notes: slides (.pdf) , 6/page (.pdf)
• practice notes: slides (.pdf) , 6/page (.pdf)
• association rules (.pdf)
• hands on Weka - part 3 (.pdf)

Useful links

• Weka
• Notepad++

Course requirements:

1. 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 hand calculator
2. Seminar (1/2 of the final grade)
• Oral presentation of seminar proposals (max 4 minutes per student, use slides template,
  file naming convention DM2008-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 DM2008-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

1. Analyze some data where you are the domain expert, use at least two algorithms
2. 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
• Vrhovno sodišče Republike Slovenije - sodna praksa

Templates

• presentation template (.pot)
• paper template (.doc)
• paper guidelines (.doc)