Data Mining Courses and Certifications

NPTEL;  IIT Kharagpur

Data Mining

45 ratings

Covers core data-mining algorithms—from preprocessing and Apriori association rules to classification and clustering—with implementations and industrial case studies.

• YouTube
• 16 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Pattern Discovery in Data Mining

21 ratings

Mine frequent, closed, and sequential patterns from massive transactional data with Apriori, SPADE, and PrefixSpan, evaluate them using null-invariant measures, and apply pattern mining to text and trajectories.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

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Data Mining

2954 ratings at Coursera

Mine structured and unstructured data: discover patterns, cluster data, build text retrieval and search engines, visualize data, and tackle Yelp restaurant review challenges.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 6 courses

Mining Massive Datasets

24 ratings

The course is based on the text Mining of Massive Datasets by Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeff Ullman, who by coincidence are also the instructors for the course.

• edX
• 7 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

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Data Mining in Python

14 ratings at Coursera

Extract knowledge from large datasets: represent data as itemsets, vectors, matrices and sequences, then mine frequent patterns and similarity measures like Jaccard and edit distance.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 13 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Data Mining Project

51 ratings at Coursera

Mine a Yelp restaurant review data set: visualize opinions, cluster cuisines into a map, discover popular dishes, recommend restaurants, and predict hygiene conditions.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

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Data Mining Foundations and Practice

189 ratings at Coursera

Discover patterns in large-scale data: work through data understanding, preprocessing and warehousing, then frequent pattern analysis, classification, clustering and outlier detection in a hands-on project.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Data Mining Pipeline

120 ratings at Coursera

Work through the data mining pipeline: characterize dataset properties, apply preprocessing techniques, build data warehouses, and interpret and evaluate models.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Data Mining Methods

76 ratings at Coursera

Learn core data mining techniques: frequent itemset mining with Apriori and FP-growth, classification methods, clustering approaches, and analysis of global, contextual, and collective outliers.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Data Mining Project

33 ratings at Coursera

Design and execute an end-to-end data mining project: brainstorm ideas, write a proposal with literature survey, hit a progress checkpoint, and deliver a final report.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Practical Engineering Data Mining: Techniques and Uses

Apply data mining to engineering problems: explore and visualize data, reduce dimensions with PCA and t-SNE, and evaluate models with RMSE, F1-score, MCC and AUC-ROC.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

8 ratings at edX

Learn how to discover knowledge in data via data mining.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 6-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

STAT 508: Applied Data Mining & Statistical Learning

Apply statistical learning methods in R: regression shrinkage and variable selection, logistic regression, discriminant analysis, decision trees, bagging and boosting, support vector machines, PCA, and clustering.

• OPEN.ED@PSU
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Medical Data Analysis and Mining

Applies data cleaning, mining, and machine learning methods to traditional Chinese medicine and other medical cases, visualizing findings for medical problem solving.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

IIT Kharagpur;  NPTEL

Data Mining

Learn data mining algorithms: preprocess data, mine association rules and sequences, build decision tree, Bayes, KNN and SVM classifiers, cluster, detect outliers, and visualize results.

• Swayam
• 8 weeks
• Available until Oct 31, 2026
• Free Online Course