WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department
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CS 4445 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases 
Schedule of Classes - A Term 2004

PROF. CAROLINA RUIZ 

WARNING: Small changes to this schedule may be made during the course of the term. 
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Date Due Topic Chapter
Th Aug 26   Introduction to KDD and Data Mining (Part I) 1
Fr Aug 27   Introduction to KDD and Data Mining (Part II) 1
Mo Aug 30   Input: Concepts, Instances, Attributes 2, 8
Tu Aug 31   Output: Knowledge Representation 3, 8
Th Sept 02   Decision Trees (I) 4.3, 6.1
Fr Sept 03   Decision Trees (II) 4.3, 6.1
Tu Sept 07   Evaluation of Patterns 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Th Sept 09 HW1 Classification Rules (I) 4.1, 4.4, 6.2
Fr Sept 10 Proj1 Association Rules (I) 4.5
Mo Sept 13   Project 1 in-class Presentations  
Tu Sept 14 HW2 Classification Rules (II) 4.1, 4.4, 6.2
Th Sept 16   Association Rules (II) 4.5
Fr Sept 17   ** EXAM 1 **  
Mo Sept 20   Numeric Predictions (I) 4.6, 6.5, 5.8
Tu Sept 21   Numeric Predictions (II) 4.6, 6.5, 5.8
Th Sept 23   Instance-based Learning 4.7, 6.4
Fr Sept 24 Proj2 Clustering (I) 6.6
Mo Sept 27   Project 2 in-class Presentations  
Tu Sept 28   Clustering (II) 6.6
Th Sept 30   Summary Mining Methods, Domain Knowledge 9.1, 9.3
Fr Oct 01 HW3 Visualization 9.2
Mo Oct 04 Proj3 Text Mining, Web Mining 9.4, 9.5
Tu Oct 05   Project 3 in-class Presentations  
Th Oct 07   Research topics - Scientific Applications  
Fr Oct 08 HW4 Research topics - Industrial Applications  
Mo Oct 11 Proj4 Catch up and Review  
Tu Oct 13   Project 4 in-class Presentations
Th Oct 14   ** EXAM 2 **