CSIS 44520 Web Mining

The Web, the largest publicly accessible data source in the world, has grown at an unprecedented pace during the past decade.  The rapidly changing news and events make the Internet a non-stationary environment, which in turn generates rapidly changing data.  This course examines the unique characteristics of Web from a data mining perspective.  It provides a review of data mining foundations and covers basic concepts of text mining, information retrieval, web search and data mining applications on social media. Undergraduate prerequisites: A grade of C or better in both CSIS 44242 and CSIS 44460.  Graduate prerequisites: A grade of C or better in both CSIS 44542 and CSIS 44560. (S)

Credits

3