S E 3 0 6 0 D A T A W A R E H O U S I N G A N D M I N I N G Spring 2015 Class Project Project Proposal; Deadline: Monday, March 2nd at 11:59PM Final Project; Deadline: Friday, May 1st at 11:59PM You can work alone or in pairs. If you wish to work in pairs contact other students and arrange with them and email me the names by 1/23/2015 1 Project Description The project is the core component of the course, accounting for 35% of the grade. Students are required to work on a project that involves writing code, running experiments, and submitting a project report. As part of the project, you are required to implement the idea, and propose some extensions for the proposed algorithms. Moreover, for validation purposes, students shall demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm on real data. At the end of semester, students shall hand in their final project report that explains the problem, and discusses the proposed approach and results. Students will also be asked to make a few slides about their project findings in the final week of classes. What kind of Project:  You can evaluate existing Data Mining techniques of an interesting dataset.  Develop your own algorithm for solving a given problem.  Survey of techniques for solving a specific problem with experimental evaluation on several datasets. Suggested course projects:  Outliers Detection.  Multi-objective clustering.  Market-basket analysis on a real data  A Music Recommendation System  A Data Mining Based Approach to Determining Causal Associations between Drugs and Conditions  Book Recommendation System  Using Twitter tweets' sentiments to predict stock price change  Text mining (Finding interesting patterns from unstructured textual corpus)  Cancer prediction from biological data (classification task)  Clustering gene expressions  Other ideas can be found through the following link: o http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~madigan/DM08/ideas/ideas.htm 2 Project Proposal For the project proposal, you are required to submit at least a 1-page writeup explaining the motivations for the problem you are addressing and the different approaches proposed in the literature. While writing your proposal, you should cite at least 3 relevant references and include the followings:  What are you trying to do  What is the problem and why it is important  What are the existing techniques  What datasets will you be using  What measures of assessment  What are you going to submit in your report 3 Deliverables You should submit your project on the course’s Moodle site.  Submit proposal by March 1st.  Proposal will have 10 points of the project grade.  A project report by the end of the semester. o Your final project submission must include: 1. Zipped Folder of all source code 2. Report that explains everything you have done in the project  Cover page (Project n.

1. S E 3 0 6 0 D A T A W A R E H O U S I N G
A N D M I N I N G
Spring 2015
Class Project
Project Proposal; Deadline: Monday, March 2nd at 11:59PM
Final Project; Deadline: Friday, May 1st at 11:59PM
You can work alone or in pairs. If you wish to work in pairs
contact other students and
arrange with them and email me the names by 1/23/2015
1 Project Description
The project is the core component of the course, accounting for
35% of the grade.
Students are required to work on a project that involves writing
code, running
experiments, and submitting a project report.
As part of the project, you are required to implement the idea,
and propose some

2. extensions for the proposed algorithms. Moreover, for
validation purposes, students
shall demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm on real
data. At the end of
semester, students shall hand in their final project report that
explains the problem,
and discusses the proposed approach and results. Students will
also be asked to make
a few slides about their project findings in the final week of
classes.
What kind of Project:
interesting
dataset.
thm for solving a given problem.
experimental
evaluation on several datasets.
Suggested course projects:
-objective clustering.

3. -basket analysis on a real data
Associations
between Drugs and Conditions
change
ning (Finding interesting patterns from unstructured
textual
corpus)
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http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~madigan/DM08/ideas/ideas.htm
2 Project Proposal
For the project proposal, you are required to submit at least a 1-
page writeup

4. explaining the motivations for the problem you are addressing
and the different
approaches proposed in the literature. While writing your
proposal, you should cite at
least 3 relevant references and include the followings:
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3 Deliverables
You should submit your project on the course’s Moodle site.
A project report by the end of the semester.
o Your final project submission must include:
1. Zipped Folder of all source code
2. Report that explains everything you have done in the
project
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5. Good Luck!
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~madigan/DM08/ideas/ideas.htm
Group Project Cover Sheet SEM 142
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
SECTION :
STUDENTS DETAILS
Student Name
Student ID

6. INSTRUCTION FOR SUBMISSION OF HARD COPY (PRINT)
PROJECT
1. Read and sign your cover sheet.
2. Attach this sheet to the front of your assignment.
3. Your assignment should be submitted to the relevant lecturer.
ASSIGNMENET DETAILS
Assignment Title:
FINANCE PROJECT
Lecturer’s Name
Program Name
Course Code
FIN220
Course Name
Principles of Financial Management
Due Date
WEEK 7 TUESDAY before class time
Date submitted
REQUEST FOR EXTENSION
All work must be submitted by the due date. An application to
extend the due date on the basis of special consideration must
be authorized by the course lecturer.
Extension granted until (date)
N/A
Lecturer’s Signature
Remarks:

7. Cheating and assisting to cheat are offences under the Yanbu
University College’s policy.
STUDENTS’ STATEMENT
We have read and understood the information provided on this
assignment cover sheet and in the college’s policy relating to
cheating and assisting to cheat, collaboration and plagiarism. I
certify that the attached work is entirely my own except where
work quoted is duly acknowledged in the text; that I have not
worked with another person or persons except where
specifically permitted by the lecturer, and that this work has not
been submitted for assessment by myself or any other person in
any other time. I have retained a copy of my work.
Students’ Signature
Mark/Grade
Assessed by & Date
OBJECTIVE
This project provides an opportunity to get some hands-on
experience applying finance theory to real firms.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:-
1. Record all the information in the Word template (use Arial
font with 12pt; 1.5 spacing ).
2. You must submit your answer in both hardcopy and softcopy.
Include references at the end of the report.

8. 3. The dateline to submit this project will be on Tuesday Week
7 before the class time.
4. Late submission will not be entertained and will result in
ZERO marks.
5. Group must consist of maximum of 5 students.
6. Grades will be assessed as a group and not as an individual
effort.
7. The discussion for each question must be at least ONE-page
long.
THE COVER PAGE SHOULD CARRY THE FOLLOWING: –
1. Name and logo of the University College
2. Program title
3. Subject code and title
4. Name of lecturer
5. Name and ID of every member of your group
6. Date of submission
INSTRUCTIONS
Refer to the guidelines as stated in the next page.

9. What is this project?
This assignment provides an opportunity to get some hands-on
experience applying finance concepts and principles into the
real firms. In particular, you will get a chance to learn in detail
about corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Saudi Arabia
companies.
How is the project structured?
1. This is a group project. Each group must have maximum of 5
members.
2. Your group will choose two Saudi Arabia corporationsto
analyze. These companies should be publicly traded and have at
least one year of trading history and one set of annual financial
statements (year 2014 or the latest). These companies must be
listed in Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul).
3. The two companies of your choice must come from different
industries.
4. Your group will be responsible for doing the entire analysis
for the companies that your group has chosen.
5. At the end of the process, the group will write one report for
both companies. In this report, the two companies will be
compared and contrasted and the results will be presented as a
whole rather than as two separate parts.
How will the project be graded?

10. 1. Each group will receive one grade and every group member
will receive the same grade.
2. No attempt will be made to allow for intra-group differences
in effort.
Companies selection:
You can select the companies from Tadawul.com.sa website.
You can also refer to gulfbase.com website for further
information on the companies, their competitors and the market.
For any additional information, search the companies’ websites
(look for annual report) for a detailed analysis particularly on
CSR.
Your report must address the following questions:
a) Examine the corporations’ CSR initiatives/activities and
explain whether the activities help enhancing their
shareholders’ wealth.
b) Analyze the interests and power of stakeholders that
corporations should be responsible for and recommend CSR
policies that balance the needs of various stakeholders.
c) Based on the above requirement (a and b), your group will
need to compare and contrast two corporations from two
different industries to find any similarities or differences in
their CSR initiatives/activities. Provide reasons for the
similarities or differences.
Prepared by: Ms. Rohaya Shaari SEM142 Page 1 of 3