Women in Computer Science

Data Mining by Laura Brown

July 25, 2019

During this session you will learn about Data Mining. This topic area is a growing field in computer science.

Activities

1. A overview of Data Mining

   • what is data mining?
   • why is it important?
   • examples and applications

2. Classification using Decision Trees

   • classification problems
   • decision tree models
   • how to create decision tree models

3. Exercise: Use Decision Trees

   • show how we can make classification models with decision trees.

Resources

Links to resources on several different programming languages and data sets commonly used in Data Mining / Machine Learning are available:

• Python
• R
• Matlab
• Data
• Link to a cool site that introduces the concept of machine learning and decision trees using many visualizations