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Terminated in academic year 2024/2025

Knowledge discovery from data

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 157-9581/01
Abbreviation VZe
Course title Knowledge discovery from data
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Systems Engineering and Informatics
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Ing. Miroslav Hudec

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction into knowledge discovery (definition, relation to the other scientific disciplines, basic concepts).
2. Data types (numeric, categorical, text, fuzzy data, mixed data types). Logical and statistical view on data and on interpreting knowledge.
3. Steps of knowledge discovery: data pre-processing, data cleaning, mining and interpreting results.
4. Correlation and causality, functional and flexible functional dependencies.
5. Computational intelligence in knowledge discovery from the data.
6. Classification, association rules, decision trees.
7. Statistical and logical data summaries.
8. Data vizualization.
9. Mining knowledge from time series.
10. Machine learning in knowledge discovery (types of learning and their properties, data, evaluation of results).

E-learning

Students have all relevant presentations from lectures and instructions in LMS Moodle

Literature

SKANSI, Sandro. Introduction to Deep Learning. Cham: Springer, 2018. ISBN978-3-319-73003-5 .
HUDEC, Miroslav. Fuzziness in Information Systems - How to Deal with Crisp and Fuzzy Data in Selection, Classification, and Summarization. Cham: Springer, 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-42516-0.
AGGRAWAL, Charu. Data Mining: The Textbook. Cham: Springer, 2015. ISBN 978-3-319-14141-1 .

Advised literature

EBOCH, M. M. Data mining. New York, Greenhaven Publishing. 2018. ISBN 781534501966.
HAN, Jiawei. Data mining: concepts and techniques. Haryana, India: Elsevier, 2012.
BERKA, Petr. Dobývání znalostí z databází. Praha: Academia, 2003. ISBN 80-200-1062-9.