Towards Data Mining (OPEN UNI)

Course provides good ability to start Master’s Thesis or graduate studies. Topics at the course include data mining process in general level, data gathering and different data types, quality and reliability of the data, data preparation including the processing of missing values, outliers, and privacy issues, combination of signals from several sources, utilization of data bases in data mining process, and normalization and transformation of data and interdependence of the observations and their distributions. Additionally, topics concerning the generality of the results are covered, as well as, the principles of data division, for example, train-test-validate, cross-validation and leave-one-out methods.