{"id":662,"date":"2009-08-29T15:56:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T19:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?page_id=662"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:19:46","slug":"cs699","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs699\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<style> p {margin-bottom:0px;} .course-feed .cf-course h4 {display: none; white-space: wrap;} .button{width:125px;}<\/style>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"course-feed\"><div class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<h4>Data Mining<\/h4>\n\t<p class=\"meta\">MET CS 699 (4 credits)<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p>Prerequisites: MET CS 521, MET LB 103 and MET LB 104; and either MET CS 579 or MET CS 669;  or consent of instructor. - Study basic concepts and techniques of data mining. Topics include data preparation, classification, performance evaluation, association rule mining, regression and clustering. You will learn underlying theories of data mining algorithms in the class and practice those algorithms through assignments and a semester-long class project using R. 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