Program Overview

Program Details

The program "Matkalla tiedonlouhintaan (AVOIN YO)" is a 5-credit course offered by the University of Oulu.

Course Description

This course teaches the essential data preprocessing skills for artificial intelligence and machine learning. The course covers data collection, handling missing values and outliers, data privacy, signal integration, database utilization, and data normalization. Students will learn to ensure the generalizability of results using train-test-validate, cross-validation, and leave-one-out methods.

Course Format

The course is offered in a continuous learning format, as part of the Open University studies.

Academic Year

The course is part of the academic year.

Field of Study

The field of study is Information and Communication Technology.

Language of Instruction

The language of instruction is English.

Organizer

The course is organized by the University of Oulu.

Location

The course takes place in Oulu and online.

Maximum Number of Participants

The maximum number of participants is 15.

Prerequisites

It is recommended that students have completed the course "P Tilastomatematiikka" or a similar course before enrolling in this course.

Learning Objectives

After completing the course, students will be able to:

• Identify the type of data they intend to study and the necessary preprocessing steps
• Design and implement a data collection process
• Integrate data from different sources
• Normalize and transform data, and handle missing or incorrect data
• Ensure the generalizability of results

Implementation

The course consists of 16 hours of lecture teaching, 16 hours of exercises, and 103 hours of independent study.

Assessment

The course includes weekly assignments and a final exam.

Teacher

The teacher is Satu Tamminen.

Grading Scale

The grading scale is 1-5/HYL.

Time and Place of Instruction

The exact schedule can be found in the Pepin opinto-oppaasta.

Contact Information

For more information, please contact avoin.yliopisto@oulu.fi.