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IFN645 Data Mining Technology and Applications

Data mining has been used intensively and extensively in many organizations around the globe as an efficient method of finding useful knowledge about their customers and business processes. It has been applied in many fields of business, industry and science to discover new knowledge. It is an exciting new field that combines databases, machine learning, artificial intelligence, high performance computing, and visualisation. The astronomical amount of data generated by organisations, and the application thereof, is too complex and voluminous to be processed and analyzed by traditional methods. Data mining provides the technology to transform huge amounts of data into useful information for decision making. This unit will cover the concepts necessary to understand data mining techniques and apply them in various application settings.

Unit information

Unit code: IFN645
Faculty: Science and Engineering Faculty
School/Discipline: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Study area: Information technology
Credit points: 12

Dates and locations

Teaching period	Dates	Locations
Semester 1, 2019	25 February 2019 - 21 June 2019	Gardens Point

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Fees

Domestic fee-paying student fee: 2019: $2,796
International student fee (excluding study abroad students): 2019: $3,936

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Domestic fee-paying student fee

For Australian citizens, permanent visa holders and permanent humanitarian visa holders, and New Zealand citizens, who study this unit:

as part of a QUT course and are not eligible for a Commonwealth supported place (CSP)
as part of a QUT course during Summer Semester
as a cross-institutional student who does not have a Commonwealth supported place at their home university
as a single-unit study student.

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Previous study requirements

Equivalents: INN342

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Prerequisites: To enrol in this unit, you must have completed these prerequisite units (or have credit, advanced standing or exemption for them), or be able to demonstrate that you have equivalent background knowledge.
Anti-requisites: You can’t enrol in this unit if you have completed any of these anti-requisite units.
Co-requisites: To enrol in this unit, you must have already completed these co-requisite units, or you must enrol in them at the same time.
Equivalents: You can’t enrol in this unit if you have completed any of these equivalent units.
Assumed knowledge: We assume that you have a minimum level of knowledge in certain areas before you start this unit.

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