3-Day Intensive Course for Technical Professionals

3 Intense Days
7 Hours per Day (Split into two 3.5-hour sessions)

Learning Path Visual

Your hands-on journey from raw data to reliable, actionable patterns:

Day 1: Foundations of Data Mining: Concepts, Methods & Toolkits
Understand core algorithms, workflows, and use cases of data mining. Set up your environment with tools like Python, Jupyter, and Scikit-learn. Learn preprocessing, sampling, and exploratory analysis essentials.

Day 2: Patterns in Practice: Clustering, Classification & Anomaly Detection
Apply key mining techniques including k-means, decision trees, and DBSCAN. Build supervised and unsupervised models, detect outliers, and evaluate performance using metrics and visualizations.

Day 3: Real-World Deployment: Pipelines, Projects & Interpretability
Go beyond modeling to deploy full workflows. Connect mining outputs to dashboards, APIs, and business outcomes. Implement explainability, fairness checks, and scalable deployment patterns.

Course Overview

Raw data holds hidden patterns — this course teaches you how to find and apply them. Through hands-on projects and real datasets, you’ll master the full lifecycle of data mining: from preparation and modeling to deployment and interpretation.

You’ll move beyond theory to build real, usable mining workflows using Python, open-source libraries, and cloud-ready tools.

You’ll learn how to:

• Perform data preprocessing and transformation for mining

• Apply classification, clustering, and association rule mining

• Detect anomalies and outliers with statistical and ML methods

• Build interpretable and reliable models

• Connect mining results to dashboards, APIs, and decision processes

• Address ethics, bias, and data quality in production

Designed for engineers, data scientists, and developers, this course gives you the practical skills to mine value from complexity.

What’s Inside Each Day

Day 1: Foundations of Data Mining: Concepts, Methods & Toolkits

• Understand the data mining lifecycle (CRISP-DM, SEMMA)

• Learn preprocessing techniques: missing values, encoding, normalization

• Explore sampling and feature selection strategies

• Set up your toolkit: Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Seaborn

• Visualize data distributions, correlations, and outliers

• Apply basic unsupervised techniques (k-means preview, PCA)

Tools: Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Jupyter, Seaborn, NumPy
Focus: Preprocessing • Foundations • Tool Setup

Day 2: Patterns in Practice: Clustering, Classification & Anomaly Detection

• Train classification models: decision trees, k-NN, logistic regression

• Apply clustering: k-means, DBSCAN, hierarchical clustering

• Perform association rule mining (Apriori, FP-Growth)

• Detect anomalies using Isolation Forest, Z-score, and LOF

• Use confusion matrix, ROC-AUC, and silhouette score for evaluation

• Visualize decision boundaries, clusters, and anomaly regions

Tools: Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Yellowbrick, MLxtend
Focus: Models • Metrics • Pattern Discovery

Day 3: Real-World Deployment: Pipelines, Projects & Interpretability

• Build reusable pipelines with sklearn.pipeline and MLflow

• Automate training and tuning workflows

• Connect models to dashboards and APIs (Flask, Streamlit)

• Apply SHAP and LIME for model explainability

• Conduct bias, fairness, and data drift checks

• Export, document, and present mining outputs for stakeholders

Tools: MLflow, Streamlit, Flask, SHAP, LIME, Scikit-learn
Focus: Deployment • Interpretability • Business Integration

Course Goals

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Design and execute full-scale data mining workflows

• Apply key classification, clustering, and detection methods

• Evaluate model performance with clarity and depth

• Package and deploy interpretable mining models

• Communicate insights effectively to technical and business audiences

• Address ethical and operational concerns around data use

Who Should Take This Course?

• Data scientists looking to deepen pattern detection and model deployment

• Engineers and developers who want to build and deploy mining models

• Analysts and researchers working with large structured datasets

• ML engineers seeking a mining-centric workflow foundation

• Academic professionals teaching or studying knowledge discovery

• CTOs and tech leads who want to integrate mining into products or platforms

Class Reference: TID/030

Form Updated on: 06/16/2025 (Version 1)
Last Modified on: 06/16/2025

Program Note

This course is updated continuously to reflect the latest methods and open-source frameworks in practical data mining and pattern discovery.

Links to Resources for presentations and summaries

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4 Steps to Moving Big Data to the Cloud

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