WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department
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CS 4445 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases 
Exam Topics and Sample Questions - B Term 2014

PROF. CAROLINA RUIZ 

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Topics covered by Exam 1 and sample exam questions:

  1. Introduction: CHAPTER 1 + Class Handout + Textbook Slides

  2. Data: CHAPTER 2: Sections 2.1-2.3, Appendix A. + Textbook Slides

  3. Exploring Data: CHAPTER 3 + Textbook Slides

  4. Classification, Decision Trees, and Model Evaluation: CHAPTER 4: Sections 4.1-4.5. + Textbook Slides

  5. Bayesian Classifiers: Section 5.3. + Textbook Slides

Topics covered by Exam 2 and sample exam questions:

  1. All the topics covered by Exam 1. (See those topics above.) This exam is cumulative.

  2. Rule-Based Classifiers: Section 5.1. + Textbook Slides

  3. Association Analysis: Sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.7. + Class Handout + Textbook Slides

  4. Clustering: Sections 8.1-8.5 + Textbook Slides

  5. Anomaly Detection: Chapter 10 + Textbook Slides

  6. Text Mining (not included in the exam)

  7. Web Mining (not included in the exam)

Previous offerings of CS4445

Webpages of my previous offerings of this course have plenty of useful resources: practice exams, exams, homework, solutions of those exams/hw, etc. Look for the links to those solutions under the "Topics and Schedule" link on the course webpages below.