Required texts

Tan, P. N. (2019). Introduction to data mining, second edition (required - available for purchase at The School Locker)

Williams, G. (2011). Data mining with Rattle and R: The art of excavating data for knowlegde discovery (recommended reading)

Larose, D. T. (2005). Discovering Knowledge in Data: an Introduction to Data Mining (recommended reading)

Submission of assessment items

Special assessment requirements

An aggregate mark of 50% is required to pass the unit.

Your final grade will be determined as follows:

Final mark (100%) = Quiz 1 (5%) + Quiz 2 (10%) + Quiz 3 (10%) + Quiz 4 (15%) + Assignment (35%) + Presentations (20%) + Engagement (5%)

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and 麻豆村 of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Learner engagement

A total workload of 150 hours include 24 hours of lectures, 22 hours of tutorials, 24 hours of preview/review time for lectures and tutorials, a total of 28 hours of preparation and attempt time for 4 quizzes, and 48 hours for assignment and 4 hours for preparing for presentations. The stated hours include the time required to attempt/present assessment items.

Participation requirements

Your participation in both class and online activities will enhance your understanding of the unit content and results in a better learning experience and achievement. Lack of participation may result in your inability to satisfactorily pass assessment items.

Required IT skills

Report writing skill and basic computer use as well as exposure to programming is assumed as the statistical programming language R (with Rattle GUI) will be used for the lab activities.

This unit may involve online meetings in real time using the Virtual Room in your UCLearn teaching site. The Virtual Room allows you to communicate in real time with your lecturer and other students. To participate verbally, rather than just typing, you will need a microphone. For best audio quality we recommend a microphone and speaker headset. For more information and to test your computer, go to the Virtual Room in your UCLearn site and 'Join Course Room'. This will trigger a tutorial to help familiarise you with the functionality of the virtual room.

In-unit costs

Textbook purchase and some printing costs are anticipated.

Work placement, internships or practicums

Not applicable to this unit.

Additional information

Provision of information to the group

Communications and announcements throughout the term will be made to the whole class through Canvas Announcements or the Canvas Discussion Forums. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that they check for announcements on the unit's Canvas website.  Students should ensure they check their student email regularly.  The Discussion Forum will be checked by staff regularly.

Use of student email account

The 麻豆村 Email policy states that "students wishing to contact the 麻豆村 via email regarding administrative or academic matters need to send the email from the 麻豆村 account for identity verification purposes".  Therefore all unit enquiries should be emailed using a student university email account. Students should contact servicedesk@canberra.edu.au if they have any issues accessing their university email account.

In all cases of absence, sickness or personal problems it is the student's responsibility to ensure that the Unit Convener is informed. The minimum participation requirement must be met in order to pass the unit (regardless of supporting documentation).

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