WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department
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CS 4445 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases 
Schedule of Classes - B Term 2014

PROF. CAROLINA RUIZ 

WARNING: Small changes to this schedule may be made during the course of the term. 
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Week Date Due Topic Book Chapters/Sections
1 Th Oct 30   Introduction to KDD and Data Mining
Data and Data Preprocessing
1, 2
2 Mo Nov 03   Data Exploration
Data Visualization
Data Integration and OLAP
Classification: Decision trees
Project 1 presentations
3, 4.1,4.2, 4.3
Th Nov 06 Proj1
3 Mo Nov 10   Classification: Model Evaluation
Classification: Bayesian Nets
Project 2 presentations
4.5, 5.3
Th Nov 13 Proj2
(with solutions)
4 Mo Nov 17   Classification: Bayesian Nets (Cont.)
Classification Rules
5.1
Th Nov 20 Proj3
(with solutions)
5 Mo Nov 24 Exam1
solutions
Project 3 presentations
Exam 1 topics & sample questions
** Exam 1 **
 
6 Mo Dec 01  Association Rules
Clustering
6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.7, 8.
Th Dec 04  
7 Mo Dec 08 Proj4
(with solutions)
Project 4 presentations
Anomaly Detection
Text Mining
Web Mining
10
Th Dec 11  
8 Mo Dec 15 Exam2
solutions
Review
** Exam 2 **
Exam 2 topics & sample questions
Project 5 presentations
 
Th Dec 18 Proj5