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does for databases. Data mining may be more challenging to do for students and
harder to manage for the tutor than a database design project, and hence might require
more resources in terms of tutor's hours. Despite all kinds of difficulties, the paper
argues and demonstrates that such a project should be feasible for final year students
of computing major. With an ambition to practise data mining, the expectation must
be realistic: it is more about experience than discovery results.
The assessment framework proposed in this paper has been practised and refined
by this author. It undoubtedly needs the scrutiny of the teaching community. It is
hoped that the framework will be continuously refined to improve the administration
and assessment of such an important element.
Acknowledgement. The author wishes to thank all the students for using their works
as case studies in this paper. For obvious reasons, their names are kept anonymous.
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