CSCI4144 CSCI6405 Data Mining and Data Warehousing | Dalhousie University戴尔豪斯大学 | 包课 | 加拿大CS代写

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CSCI 4144: Operating Systems
Course Syllabus
Instructor Information
Instructor: Qiang Ye E-mail: qye@cs.dal.ca
Class Time: W/F 10:05am-11:25am Office Hours: W 11:30am-12:30pm
Delivery Platform: MS Teams Course Homepage: dal.brightspace.com
Course Mail List: all-cs4144@cs.dal.ca
Course TA: TBA
Important Dates

• Last day to drop fall term courses with no financial implications: Jan. 14
• Last day to drop fall term courses without a “W”: Jan. 28
• Winter Study Break: Feb. 21 – 25
• Midterm Exam: Feb. 18
• Final Exam: TBA in the period of Apr. 8 -26
  Course Description
  This course reviews main concepts in data mining and data warehouses including objectives, architectures, algorithms, implementations, and applications. The topics covered include operational information process, decision-oriented information process, data warehousing and On-Line Analytical Process (OLAP), characterization mining, association rule mining, classification and predication and clustering. Selected system tools for data mining and data warehousing are introduced.
  Learning Outcomes
• Understand how to clean raw data
• Understand how to integrate data from different sources
• Understand how to effectively reduce the amount of raw data
• Understand how to how to transform/discretize data
• Describe the components of a data warehouse
• Design software to complete On-Line Analytical Process (OLAP) operations
• Design software to mine association rules
• Compare different association rule mining algorithms
• Design software to perform classification/prediction operations
• Compare different classification/prediction algorithms
• Design software to perform clustering operations
• Compare different clustering algorithms
  Course Rationale
  Data mining is the process of discovering interesting patterns and knowledge from a large amount of
  data. If the data comes from one source, data mining is relatively easier. If the data involves multiple
  sources, it is better to use a data warehouse to organize the data. Technically, a data warehouse is a
  repository of information collected from multiple sources, stored under a unified schema, and usually
  residing at a single site. In this course, we will first learn how to use a data warehouse to organize data
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  and perform On-Line Analytical Process (OLAP) operations. Afterwards, we will learn a series of data
  mining techniques.
  Class Format and Course Communication
• Live classes will be delivered via MS Teams. Recordings will be made available afterwards.
• Course material will be posted through the course’s brightspace site.
• Course announcements and deadlines will be posted to the course mail list, which comprises the
  instructor’s and students’ Dal emails, as well as through the course’s brightspace site. It is the student’s responsibility to check their Dal e-mail and brightspace account on a daily basis. To access
  your Dal email, please refer to: https://www.dal.ca/dept/its.html
  Evaluation Criteria
• Assignments (30%)
  o Four assignments
  o Late Submission: Assignments submitted within 24 hours of the deadline will lose 10% of the
  original mark. After the 24-hour time window, no assignment will be accepted.
• Project (20%)
  o Allowed to work in a team with up to 3 students.
  o Late Submission: Project components submitted within 24 hours of the deadline will lose 10%
  of the original mark. After the 24-hour time window, no submission will be accepted.
• Midterm Exam (20%)
  o Individual open book: It is open book, but you need to complete the exam by yourself.
  o To be held during class on February 18, 2022.
• Final Exam (30%)
  o Individual open book: It is open book, but you need to complete the exam by yourself.
  o The exam will be scheduled by the university.
  Notes
• A minimum grade of C is required in this course if it is core to your FCS degree, or if it will be used
  as a prerequisite for a subsequent CSCI course.
• As of 2019, students who receive a grade lower than C in the same required CS course twice, will
  be dismissed.
• The grade conversion scale in Section 17.1 of the Academic Regulations, Undergraduate Calendar
  will be used.
• It is up to the discretion of the instructor to use remote proctoring in online testing. Students may be required to download proctoring software onto their devices. Students who
  cannot meet system requirements for remote proctoring should contact the instructor for
  an alternate assessment. (Typical system requirements are: (i) Mac OS or Windows, (ii) a
  web-cam, and (iii) an internet connection.)
  Student Declaration of Absence
  The Student Declaration of Absence policy shall apply. Namely, if you experience a short-term absence
  that is no longer than three consecutive days, you must:
• Notify your instructor by email prior to the academic deadline or scheduled time. In the email,
  you need to state what your problem is. Being busy is not a valid reason for extension requests.
• Download and complete the Student Declaration Form
• Send the completed form to the instructor by email within three days following your last day of
  absence
  The details about the form can be found here:
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  https://www.dal.ca/campus_life/safety-respect/student-rights-and-responsibilities/academic-policies/student-absence.html
  Please note you can only submit a maximum of two separate Student Declaration of Absence forms per
  course during a term.
  Midterm and Final Exam Requirements
• Photo ID is required
  Academic Standards
  Failure to properly attribute sources in your work will be treated as an academic standards issue and
  points may be deducted for not following citation requirements. For example, forgetting to quote text
  taken from other sources, failure to include in-text citations, or a failure to include required information in the citations or references. Please see the resources on proper citation provided by the Dalhousie Writing Center (https://dal.ca.libguides.com/c.php?g=257176&p=5001261).
  Please note that if it appears that the error was made with intent to claim other people’s work as
  your own such as a lack of both citations and references, an allegation of plagiarism will be submitted
  to the Faculty Academic Integrity Officer, which could result in consequences such as a course failure.
  Required Texts and Resources
• The text for the course is: “Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques”, 3rd edition, Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber and Jian Pei, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, July 2011, ISBN 978-0123814791. Note
  that the electronic version of the book is available via the “Science Direct” section of Dal Library:
  http://dal.ca.libguides.com/c.php?g=257110&p=1716818
• The lecture slides will be posted on the learning management system (i.e. brightspace).
  Web Resources
• General Data Mining Site: http://www.kdnuggets.com
  o A collection of DM publications, software/tools, data repositories, companies, etc.
• Data Mining Software – Weka: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
  o A collection of machine learning algorithms for solving real-world data mining problems. It is
  written in Java and runs on almost any platform.
• Data Repository #1: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html
• Data Repository #2: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets
• Data Repository #3: http://www.kdnuggets.com/datasets/index.html
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining
  Prerequisites
  CSCI 2110.03 and CSCI 2141.03
  Tentative List of Topics
• Overview of Data Mining and Data Warehousing
• Data Pre-processing
• Data Warehousing and OLAP
• Association Rule Mining
• Classification
• Cluster Analysis
• Advanced Topics
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  Responsible Computing Policy
  Usage of all computing resources in the Faculty of Computer Science must be within the Dalhousie
  Acceptable Use Policies (http://its.dal.ca/policies/) and the Faculty of Computer Science Responsible Computing Policy. For more information please see
  https://www.cs.dal.ca/downloads/fcs_policy_local.pdf
  Use of Plagiarism Detection Software
  All submitted code may be passed through a plagiarism detection software, such as the plagiarism detector embedded in Codio, the Moss (https://theory.stanford.edu/ ̃aiken/ moss/) Software Similarity
  Detection System, or similar systems. If a student does not wish to have their assignments passed
  through plagiarism detection software, they should contact the instructor for an alternative. Please
  note, that code not passed through plagiarism detection software will necessarily receive closer scrutiny. https://cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/ pdf/dept/university_secretariat/policy-repository/OriginalitySoftwarePolicy.pdf
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  ourselves to a higher standard.
  What we all need to do:

1. Be Ready to Act: This starts with promising yourself to speak up to help prevent it from happening again. Whatever it takes, summon your courage to address the issue. Try to approach the issue
   with open-ended questions like “Why did you say that?” or “How did you develop that belief?”
2. Identify the Behaviour: Use reflective listening and avoid labeling, name-calling, or assigning
   blame to the person. Focus the conversation on the behaviour, not on the person. For example,
   “The comment you just made sounded racist, is that what you intended?” is a better approach than
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3. Appeal to Principles: This can work well if the person is known to you, like a friend, sibling, or
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   when I hear you say something like that.”
4. Set Limits: You cannot control another person’s actions, but you can control what happens in your
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6. Be Vigilant: Change can happen slowly, but do not let this deter you. Stay prepared, keep speaking
   up, and do not let yourself be silenced.
   1 Source: Speak Up! © 2005 Southern Poverty Law Center. First Printing. This publication was produced by Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Full ”Speak Up” document found at:
   http://www.dal.ca/dept/dalrespect.html. Revised by Susan Holmes from a document provided April 2015 by
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   inclusive community. We are committed to being a place where everyone feels welcome and supported, which is why our Strategic Direction prioritizes fostering a culture of diversity and inclusiveness (Strategic Priority 5.2). (read more: http://www.dal.ca/cultureofrespect.html)
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   When appropriate, violations of the code can be resolved in a reasonable and informal manner—perhaps through a restorative jus- tice process. If an informal resolution can’t be reached, or would be
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   inappropriate, procedures exist for formal dispute resolution. (read more: https://www.dal.ca/dept/university_secretariat/policies/student-life/code-of-student-con.html)
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