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Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

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Module Title
Module Code (ITS)
Faculty School
Module Co-ordinatorSemester 1: Tomas Ward
Semester 2: Tomas Ward
Autumn: Tomas Ward
Module TeachersTomas Ward
Jagadeeswaran Thangaraj
NFQ level 9 Credit Rating
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
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Description

This module will introduce students to a set of intelligent algorithms applied in modern computing, develop theoretical and mathematical underpinnings of these intelligent algorithms, show how these algorithms can be used in problem solving environments and understand their properties and limitations and gain experience with working with these algorithms.

Learning Outcomes

1. Collect and clean structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources including structured databases, web services, and text-based data formats;
2. Understand key techniques for mining association rules from frequent item sets;
3. Understand and apply a priori algorithm to real datasets;
4. Design and implement the workflow required to solve key analytics challenges including recommendation engines, trading algorithms, fault detection, event detection and prediction, etc.;
5. Understand the characteristics and limitations of several different classification and clustering techniques and select the one most appropriate for a given task and dataset;
6. Understand and apply key algorithms such as k-Means, SVM, kNN, Naive Bayes, Active Learning, Neural Networks (supervised and unsupervised), scalable approaches including Panda and CART;



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture36No Description
Independent Study139Following coursework laid out on Moodle
Total Workload: 175

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Understand key techniques for mining association rules from frequent item sets

Understand and apply the a priori algorithm to real datasets

Collect and clean structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources including databases, web services, and text-based data formats

Design and implement the workflow required to solve key analytics problems such as recommendation engines, trading algorithms, fault detection, event prediction etc.

Understand the characteristics and limitations of several different classification and clustering techniques and select the one most appropriate for a given task and the data

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment% Examination Weight%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Assignmentn/a25%n/a
Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories:
Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module.
Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
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