It is not a good idea to conduct a survey of a field in which you are a novice.

To identify a novel and challenging problem can also a project, but it requires substantial work to show that it is novel and challenging.

Example topics of the course projects can be as follows:

1. Your idea – this needs to be approved by the instructor

2. Streaming Data Extraction

3. Selection Bias in Learning

4. Bioinformatics: Microarray Data Preprocessing and Mining

5. Privacy Preserving Data Mining

6. Intrusion Detection

7. Subspace Clustering

8. Data Privacy and Security

9. Web Mining