CSIS 44520 - Web Mining

Credit Hours: 3
The Web, the largest publically accessible data source in the world, has grown at an unprecedented pace during the past decade. 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 the 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.

Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate prerequisite: A grade of C or better in CSIS 44242. Graduate prerequisite: A grade of C or better in CSIS 44642.
Typically Offered: SP