Introduction to Data Mining

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While the corporate world is flooded by data, it is very rare where you see knowledge or valuable information. Data mining is what a corporation needs to generate business value, the bottom line of its existence. This course will present the techniques and tools needed to search for significant patterns and trends in large databases. The course will present Data Mining is a Knowledge Discovery methodology that involves nontrivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown, and potentially useful information from data. The course will also discuss machine learning, statistical and visualization techniques to discovery and present knowledge in a form, which is easily comprehensible to humans.