3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the Master of Computer Science program or Graduate Certificate in Artificial Intelligence program. Explores advanced concepts of data mining and knowledge discovery including sequence mining, audio video mining, and text mining. Analyzes, designs, develops, and evaluates data mining techniques and tools, including data preprocessing, data characterization and comparison, decision trees, association rule mining in large databases, classification and prediction. Uses clustering and cluster analysis and statistical modeling, advanced methods and applications, extracting meaningful patterns from massive datasets using methods such as neural networks and machine learning algorithms.