Given today's massive size of data, data mining aims to address the data analytics problems by discovering useful patterns and information hidden in the data. Importantly, awareness of the importance of data mining for business is becoming wide spread. The industry has created an increasing number of job opportunities for people who have data analytic skills. The key objectives of the course are two-fold: (1) to teach the fundamental concepts of data mining and (2) to provide hands-on experience in applying the concepts to real-world applications. The core topics to be covered in this course include classification, clustering, association analysis and anomaly analysis. * Computer skills: Some applications of data mining models introduced in class will be demonstrated in R, so students can expect to learn basic programming skills in this class.