COMP5331: Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining
Instructor: Lei Chen
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Course Details
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Course URL:
http://www.cse.ust.hk/~leichen/courses/COMP53
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Instructor: Dr. Lei Chen
TA: Mr. Zheng Liu
Venue and Time: 5583, M/W 10:30am-11:50am
Reference books/materials:
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Papers
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques. Jiawei Han and
Micheline Kamber. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (3rd
edition)
Introduction to Data Mining. Pang-Ning Tan, Michael
Steinbach, Vipin Kumar Boston : Pearson Addison
Wesley (2006)
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Area
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DB or AI
This course can count towards one of the areas
ONLY and cannot be double counted towards the
required credits
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Course Details
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Grading Scheme:
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Project 40% (10% presentation +30% final report+code)
Midterm Exam 30%
Final Exam 40%
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Project Presentation Marking
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Project Presentation Score Bonus Marks
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July 28, 2017
Project Presentation Scores will be given by the audience
(5%) and the instructor (5%)
Participant and Marking Bonus: all the students are strongly
encouraged to attend project presentation sessions and give
marks to the presenter (the score sheet will be distributed at
the beginning of the session). I will give you bonus 0.25
mark for each filled score sheet.
Question Bonus: all the students are encouraged to ask
questions during the Question/Answer session after each
presentation. Each student is allowed to ask one question in
each paper presentation. For each asked question, I will give
you bonus 0.5 mark. You can staple your bonus coupon
which we will give you on your filled score sheet.
Please note, the questions like “Can you explain more?”, “I
cannot understand, can you repeat?” will not be counted.
For each paper presentation’s Q/A session, at most 3
questions are allowed to ask.
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Project
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Each project is completed by a group.
Each group has no more than two people.
The duration of each presentation depends on the
class size.
It will be announced soon.
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Project
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Project Type (One of the following)
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Survey
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Implementation-oriented Project
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Research-oriented Project
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Project
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Project Type (One of the following)
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Survey
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Implementation-oriented Project
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Research-oriented
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Proposal
Presentation
Final report
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Project 3.
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Full Score = 80%
Full Score = 90%
Proposal
Presentation
Final report
Coding
Proposal
Full Score = 100%
Presentation
Final report (containing your
proposed methodology)
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Coding (if any)
Project
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Project Topic
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Some pre-selected topics/papers
Your own choice
For fairness, please do not choose the topic which
is closely related to your own research
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Exams
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You are allowed to bring a calculator with you.
Please remember to prepare a calculator for the
exam
Midterm Exam will be held on Oct 12th, 2016
Final Exam will be held on the second week of
Dec, 2016
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