COMP8400 - Algorithms and Techniques for Data Mining

Welcome to COMP8400 in 2012. This Web site contains information for interested students, such as an overview of the course content, the text book to be used, and links to relevant information on the Study@ANU Web site.

Please note that the Wattle system will be used to provide course content.

General course information

• Course coordinator and lecturer: Peter Christen

• Lecture and lab/tutorial times from ANU Timetablelling

• Course content: An overview of the course content providing details of what topics will be covered in this course.

• Text book: Jaiwei Han and Micheline Kamber, Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques, 3rd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.

  Please note that COMP8400 will not cover all chapters in this book, and some content of COMP8400 is not covered by this text book.

• General course information: Is available from the Study@ANU Web site.

• Non-award student attendance: This course is open to interested parties (such as industry or government employees) who don't want or cannot enrol in a full ANU Masters program.

  For details on fees and how to apply as 'non-award student' please see:

  • Study@ANU 2012, COMP8400 Fees and Dates
  • Form for 'Application for Non-Award Enrolment: Postgraduates' (Note that non-award applications close 31st January 2012).

  As an alternative, consider ANU's Graduate Studies Select, which allows participants to select courses from across the graduate course offerings available at the ANU.

• Further material and resources: Further material and resources

• If you are interested in data mining in general, please visit KDNuggets.com - Analytics and Data mining resources.