The request to create ITCS 3162

Date: December 9, 2015
To: College of Computing & Informatics
From: Office of Academic Affairs
Approved On: November 17, 2015
Approved by: Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Committee
Implementation Date: Spring 2016

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ITCS 3162. Introduction to Data Mining (3) Prerequisite: ITCS 2214 (or ITCS 2215) and STAT 2122.

The key objectives of this course are two-fold: (1) to teach the basic concepts of data mining and (2) to provide extensive hands-on experience in applying the concepts to real-world business applications. This course will cover the following topics: Data Collection, Data Preprocessing, Data Exploration, Feature Engineering, Prediction Model, Clustering, Association Analysis, Graph/Network Analysis, Text Mining and Social Media Analysis, and Anomaly Detection. The course will be offered every Spring semester.