CS 548 Fall 2017 - Schedule of Classes

Computer Science Department

CS548 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Schedule of Classes - Fall 2017

PROF. CAROLINA RUIZ

WARNING: Changes to this schedule may be made during the course of the semester.

WEEK	DATE	DUE	TOPIC	READINGS Tan, Steinbach, Kumar's Textbook
1	Aug. 29 & 31		Introduction to KDD & Data Mining Data & Data Preparation Concepts, instances, attributes Data preprocessing Attribute selection	Chp. 1, 2
2	Sept. 5 & 7		Data & Data Preparation (cont.) Data integration Data warehousing & OLAP Dimensionality reduction Visualization	Chp. 3, Appendix B.1
3	Sept. 12 & 14	Project 1	Mining process Training and Testing Cross validation Performance evaluation Project 1 discussion and Test 1	Sect. 4.5
4	Sept. 19 & 21		Classification Decision trees Showcase: Decision Trees	Sect. 4.1-4.4.
5	Sept. 26 & 28		Numeric Predictions linear regression model trees regression trees Showcase: Model and Regression Trees	Appendix D, and all numeric prediction materials on Ruiz' lecture notes
6	Oct. 3 & 5		Association Analysis association rules Showcase: Association Rules	Sec. 6.1-6.3, 6.7-6.9.
7	Oct. 10 & 12	Project 2	Association Analysis (cont.) association rules Project 2 discussion and Test 2	Chp. 6
	Oct. 18 & 20		Semester Break
8	Oct. 24 & 28		Cluster Analysis partitioning methods hierarchical methods density-based methods Showcase: Clustering	Chp. 8
9	Oct. 31 & Nov. 2	Project 3	Cluster Analysis (cont.) grid-based methods model-based methods Project 3 discussion and Test 3	Chp. 8
10	Nov. 7 & 9		Anomaly Detection model-based methods proximity-based methods density-based methods Showcase: Anomaly Detection	Chp. 10
11	Nov. 14 & 16	Project 4	Advanced topics Text mining Visualization Showcase: Text Mining Project 4 discussion and Test 4	Sect. 3.3. all visualization materials on Ruiz' lecture notes text mining materials marked with ** on Ruiz' lecture notes
	Nov. 21		No class today
12	Nov. 28 & 30		Advanced topics (cont.) Sequence mining Multimedia data mining Showcase: Sequence Mining	Sect. 7.4
13	Dec. 5 & 7	Project 5	Advanced topics (cont.) Web mining Industrial applications of data mining Scientific applications of data mining Showcase: Web Mining Project 5 presentations and Test 5	all web mining materials on Ruiz' lecture notes
14	Dec. 12 & 14		Project 5 presentations and discussion (cont.)