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IIT Kharagpur Invites Applications from Students for Free Online Course on Data Mining through NPTEL

IIT Kharagpur professor will conduct a free online course through NPTEL on data mining for which interested students can enroll

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IIT Kharagpur has invited applications from interested students for a free online course on data mining, which will be conducted through National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) project. The course will be conducted over a period of 8 weeks and is completely online.

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The course will be conducted by Pabitra Mitra, who is an Associate Professor of computer science and engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He was also a scientist at Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), Bangalore and an Assistant Professor at IIT Kanpur.

Who is Eligible for the IIT Kharagpur Data Mining Course?

Students from any engineering discipline, mathematics or physics streams can take the free online course. Students can enroll for the course beginning now until 24 February 2020. The online course will be conducted from 24 February 2020 to 17 April 2020.

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The course will cover introduction, data preprocessing, association rule mining, classification basics, decision tree, Bayes classifier, K nearest neighbor, Support Vector Machine, Kernel Machine, Clustering, Outlier detection, Sequence mining, Evaluation, Visualization, and case studies.

How to Obtain Certificate for the IIT Kharagpur Data Mining Course?

This would be an AICTE approved FDP course, for which students can enroll for free. However, those who wish to get an e-certificate would need to register and write the proctored exam conducted in person at any of the designated exam centres.

Those who wish to take the exam would be required to pay Rs 1000. The exam will be conducted on 25 April 2020 at morning session 9am to 12 noon and afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm. To get the certificate candidates need an average assignment score of 25% of the average of best 6 assignments out of the total 8 assignments given in the course, an exam score of 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100 and a Final score of Average assignment score plus Exam score.

The certificate will have the candidate’s name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will also have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur. Candidates will only receive the e-certificates and no hard copies will be dispatched. Interested and eligible candidates are advised to go through the IIT Kharagpur, NPTEL platform in detail to know more about the course: https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc20_cs12/preview

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