IOE Syllabus of Data Mining
IOE Syllabus of Data Mining
It will have a total of 80 marks of final exam and 20 marks as internal marking. The
chapter along with their credit hours and marking scheme are as below. There might be
minor errors while posting
1. Introduction (2 hours)
1. Data Mining Origin
2. Data Mining & Data Warehousing basics
2. Data Pre-Processing (6 hours )
1. Data Types and Attributes
2. Data Pre-processing
3. OLAP & Multidimensional Data Analysis
4. Various Similarity Measures
3. Classification (12 hours)
1. Basics and Algorithms
2. Decision Tree Classifier [humanoriented]
3. Rule Based Classifier
4. Nearest Neighbor Classifier
5. Bayesian Classifier
6. Artificial Neural Network Classifier
7. Issues : Overfitting, Validation, Model Comparison
4. Association Analysis (10 hours)
1. Basics and Algorithms
2. Frequent Itemset Pattern & Apriori Principle
3. FP-Growth, FP-Tree
4. Handling Categorical Attributes
5. Sequential, Subgraph, and Infrequent Patterns
5. Cluster Analysis (9 hours)
1. Basics and Algorithms
2. K-means Clustering [Wikipedia]
3. Hierarchical Clustering
4. DBSCAN Clustering
5. Issues : Evaluation, Scalability, Comparison
6. Anomaly / Fraud Detection (3 hours)
7. Advanced Applications (3 hours)
1. Mining Object and Multimedia
2. Web-mining
3. Time-series data mining
Practical:
Using either MATLAB or any other DataMining tools (such as WEKA), students should
practice enough on real-world data intensive problems like IRIS or Wiki dataset.
Evaluation Scheme:
The question will cover all the chapters of the syllabus. The evaluation scheme will be as
indicated in the table below:
1 2 4
2 6 10
3 12 20
4 10 18
5 9 16
6 3 6
7 3 6
Total 45 80
*There may be minor variation in marks distribution.
Reference Materials:
• Pang-NingTan, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar, Introductionto Data Mining,
2005, Addison-Wesley.
• Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques,
2nd Edition, 2006, Morgan Kaufmann.