Last modified: 20 Jun 2025 15:06
This course provides an introduction to machine learning and data mining. Students will learn how to analyse complex datasets by applying data pre-processing, exploration, clustering and classification, time-series analysis, neural networks, and many other techniques. This course is particularly suitable for those who are interested in working as data analysts or data scientists in the future.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Offshore | Sustained Study | No |
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This course introduces the student to machine learning techniques, as the means for computer systems to extract useful information out of data. Topics include:
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 70 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Analyse | Ability to identify, prepare, and manage appropriate datasets for analysis. |
| Procedural | Apply | Ability to appropriately present the results of data analysis. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Ability to analyse the results of data analyses, and to evaluate the performance of analytic techniques in context. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Knowledge and understanding of analytic techniques, and ability to appropriately apply them in context, making correct judgements about how this needs to be done. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback | ||||
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Analyse | Ability to identify, prepare, and manage appropriate datasets for analysis. |
| Procedural | Apply | Ability to appropriately present the results of data analysis. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Ability to analyse the results of data analyses, and to evaluate the performance of analytic techniques in context. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Knowledge and understanding of analytic techniques, and ability to appropriately apply them in context, making correct judgements about how this needs to be done. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Apply | Ability to appropriately present the results of data analysis. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Knowledge and understanding of analytic techniques, and ability to appropriately apply them in context, making correct judgements about how this needs to be done. |
| Procedural | Evaluate | Ability to analyse the results of data analyses, and to evaluate the performance of analytic techniques in context. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Ability to identify, prepare, and manage appropriate datasets for analysis. |
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