Data Mining

Term Paper

You are required to write a term paper to study one task taken from the UCI Data Repository
Website: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/ or Kaggle Website: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets
where you need to perform One of the data mining techniques (Regression, Classification,
or Clustering) on this task.
First, you need to analyze and describe the chosen data, then you need to evaluate your data
using 3 different Data Mining algorithms (e.g. Neural Networks, Support Vector Machine,
k- nearest neighbor, decision tree) by comparing the results of these different DM
algorithms. Finally, you need also to compare your produced results with previously
published papers and studies that used the same dataset.
Your term paper must have the following organization:
1. Introduction
2. Background (literature review about the task in previous papers)
3. Proposed models (Hint: Here you can specify the different data mining algorithms that
you will use eg. Neural network, decision trees, support vector machines, k-nearest
neighbor, any other modified versions of these models or any other Data Mining
techniques.
4. Experiment setup and results.
5. Conclusion
Some Examples of these tasks taken from UCI Data Repository are:
Task 1: Facebook metrics Data set (Classification)
https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Dow+Jones+Index
Task2: Amazon Access Data Set (Regression)
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Amazon+Access+Samples
Task3: Air Quality Data Set (Regression)
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Air+Quality
Task4: Blog Feedback Data Set (Regression)
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/BlogFeedback
Notes
• Each student needs to send me the task (classification or regression) including the chosen
dataset before starting the work, since each student will be working on a unique task.
• You are free to use any educational free data mining tools (e.g., Weka, Rapid Miner,
Orange) or any programing language you like R, MATLAB or Python.
• This Term paper is worth 20% of the total course mark.
• Each student needs to be ready to present their work and results on Wed. 27th Dec. 2023
• Attached is an example of a simple research term Paper.
• The research paper needs to be between 8-10 pages (Two columns).
• Runing Code that produces the results needs to be submitted with the paper.