This course introduces the key steps involved in the data mining pipeline, including data understanding, data preprocessing, data warehousing, data modeling, interpretation and evaluation, and real-world applications.
This course is part of the Data Mining Foundations and Practice Specialization
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About this Course
data science professionals or domain experts, some experience working with data
What you will learn
By the end of this course, you will be able to identify the key components of the data mining pipeline and describe how they're related.
You will be able to identify particular challenges presented by each component of the data mining pipeline.
You will be able to apply techniques to address challenges in each component of the data mining pipeline.
Skills you will gain
- Data Pre-Processing
- Data Warehousing
- data understanding
- data mining pipeline
data science professionals or domain experts, some experience working with data
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Data Mining Pipeline
This module provides an introduction to data mining and data mining pipeline, including the four views of data mining and the key components in the data mining pipeline.
Data Understanding
This module covers data understanding by identifying key data properties and applying techniques to characterize different datasets.
Data Preprocessing
This module explains why data preprocessing is needed and what techniques can be used to preprocess data.
Data Warehousing
This module covers the key characteristics of data warehousing and the techniques to support data warehousing.
About the Data Mining Foundations and Practice Specialization
The Data Mining specialization is intended for data science professionals and domain experts who want to learn the fundamental concepts and core techniques for discovering patterns in large-scale data sets. This specialization consists of three courses: (1) Data Mining Pipeline, which introduces the key steps of data understanding, data preprocessing, data warehouse, data modeling and interpretation/evaluation; (2) Data Mining Methods, which covers core techniques for frequent pattern analysis, classification, clustering, and outlier detection; and (3) Data Mining Project, which offers guidance and hands-on experience of designing and implementing a real-world data mining project.

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