Data mining & decision making

linfo2275  2022-2023  Louvain-la-Neuve

Data mining & decision making
5.00 credits
30.0 h + 15.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Saerens Marco;
Language
English
> French-friendly
Main themes
The course is structured around four themes
  1. Complements of data mining,
  2. Decision making,
  3. Information retrieval,
  4. Link analysis and web/graph mining .
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 Given the learning outcomes of the "Master in Computer Science and Engineering" program, this course contributes to the development, acquisition and evaluation of the following learning outcomes:
  • INFO1.1-3
  • INFO2.2-3
  • INFO5.2
Given the learning outcomes of the "Master [120] in Computer Science" program, this course contributes to the development, acquisition and evaluation of the following learning outcomes:
  • SINF1.M4
  • SINF2.2-3
  • SINF5.2
Students completing this course successfully will be able to
  • explain quantitative and qualitative data mining methods and to apply them to decision making
  • develop a critical view of data mining techniques in specific application domains
  • master information retrieval techniques from very large data collection, possibly enriched with link structures (WEB, social networks, ...)
  • explain application of information retrieval techniques in the context of search engines and automated recommendation systems
  • implement data mining and information retrieval algorithms within standard software environments such as S-Plus, R, SAS, Weka or Matlab
 
Content
The content changes from year to year, but the chapters with a * are always teached. The teached sections depend on the year.
 * Complements of data mining
  • Principal components analysis
  • Canonical correlation analysis
  • Correspondence analysis
  • Log-linear models
  • Discriminant analysis
  • Multidimensional scaling
  • Markov and hidden Markov models
  • etc
* Decision making
  • Dynamic programming and applications
  • Markov decision processes and reinforcement learning
  • Exploration/exploitation and bandit problems
  • Utility theory
  • Multi-criteria preference modeling - the Promethee method
  • Probabilistic reasoning with bayesian networks
  • Two-players game theory
  • Collective decisions
* Information retrieval
  • The basic vector-space model
  • The probabilistic model
  • Ranking web pages : PageRank, HITS, etc.
  • Collaborative recommendation models (recommender systems) .
Link analysis and web/graph mining
  • Network community detection
  • Similarity measures between nodes
  • Spectral graph partitioning and mapping
* Reputation and collaborative recommendation models
Evaluation methods
  • One or two projects for 6 points on 20 to 10 points on 20 (for both projects), depending on the size and the number of these projects. This will be specified at the first or second lecture.
  • Oral or written exam (depending on the health situation and the number of students) : 14/20 to 10/20 (depending on the scenario concerning the projects).
  • The exam is mandatory, also in August – you are considered as absent if you do not pass it.
Other information
Background / prerequisites :
  • LBIR1304 ou LFSAB1105 :  a course on probability theory and mathematical statistics,
  • LBIR1200 ou LFSAB1101 : a course on linear and matrix algebra,
  • LFSAB1402 : a good Python programming course,
  • A course in multivariate calculus (mathematics).
Online resources
Available on Moodle
Bibliography
Some recommended reference books :
  • Alpaydin (2004), "Introduction to machine learning". MIT Press.
  • Bardos (2001), "Analyse discriminante. Application au risque et scoring financier. Dunod.
  • Bishop (1995), "Neural networks for pattern recognition". Clarendon Press.
  • Bishop (2006), "Pattern recognition and machine learning". Springer-Verlag.
  • Bouroche & Saporta (1983), "L'analyse des données". Que Sais-je.
  • Cornuéjols & Miclet (2002), "Apprentissage artificiel. Concepts et algorithmes". Eyrolles.
  • Duda, Hart & Stork (2001), "Pattern classification, 2nd ed". John Wiley & Sons.
  • Dunham (2003), "Data mining. Introductory and advanced topics". Prentice-Hall.
  • Greenacre (1984), "Theory and applications of correspondence analysis". Academic Press.
  • Han & Kamber (2005), "Data mining: Concepts and techniques, 2nd ed.". Morgan Kaufmann.
  • Hand (1981), "Discrimination and classification". John Wiley & Sons.
  • Hardle & Simar (2003), "Applied multivariate statistical analysis". Springer-Verlag. Disponible à http://www.quantlet.com/mdstat/scripts/mva/htmlbook/mvahtml.html
  • Hastie, Tibshirani & Friedman (2001), "The elements of statistical learning". Springer-Verlag.
  • Johnson & Wichern (2002), "Applied multivariate statistical analysis, 5th ed". Prentice-Hall.
  • Lebart, Morineau & Piron (1995), "Statistique exploratoire multidimensionnelle". Dunod.
  • Mitchell (1997), "Machine learning". McGraw-Hill.
  • Naim, Wuillemin, Leray, Pourret & Becker (2004), "Réseaux bayesiens". Editions Eyrolles.
  • Nilsson (1998), "Artificial intelligence: A new synthesis". Morgan Kaufmann.
  • Ripley (1996), "Pattern recognition and neural networks". Cambridge University Press.
  • Rosner (1995), "Fundamentals of biostatistics, 4th ed".Wadsworth Publishing Company.
  • Saporta (1990), "Probabilités, analyse des données et statistique". Editions Technip.
  • Tan, Steinbach & Kumer (2005), "Introduction to data mining". Pearson.
  • Theodoridis & Koutroumbas (2003), "Pattern recognition, 3th ed". Academic Press.
  • Therrien (1989), "Decision, estimation and classification". Wiley & Sons.
  • Venables & Ripley (2002), "Modern applied statistics with S. Springer-Verlag.
  • Webb (2002), "Statistical pattern recognition, 2nd ed". John Wiley and Sons.
Faculty or entity
INFO


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