CS 548 Fall 2018 - Schedule of Classes

Computer Science Department

CS548 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Schedule of Classes - Fall 2018

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. 28 & 30		Introduction to KDD & Data Mining Data & Data Preprocessing Concepts, instances, attributes Data sampling Missing values	Chp. 1, 2
2	Sept. 4 No class on Sept. 6		Data & Data Preprocessing (cont.) Attribute discretization Dimensionality reduction: Feature Selection	Chp. 2
3	Sept. 11 & 13	Project 1 & Test 1	Data & Data Preprocessing (cont.) Dimensionality reduction: Feature Extraction Project 1 discussion and Test 1	Online Appendix B.1
4	Sept. 18 & 20		Classification Decision trees Showcase: Decision Trees Numeric Predictions linear regression model trees regression trees Showcase: Model and Regression Trees	Sect. 3.1-3.3. Online Appendix D and all numeric prediction materials on Ruiz' lecture notes
5	Sept. 25 & 27	HW	Model construction and evaluation Training and Testing Cross validation Performance evaluation	Sect. 3.4-3.8
6	Oct. 2 & 4	HW	Model Comparison Experimental Design Deep Learning Networks Neural Networks Deep Learning	Sect. 3.9, 4.7-4.8
7	Oct. 9 & 11	Project 2 & Test 2 HW	Deep Learning Networks (cont.) Neural Networks Deep Learning Showcase: Neural Networks and Deep Learning Project 2 discussion and Test 2	Sect. 4.7-4.8
	Oct. 16 & 18		Semester Break
8	Oct. 23 & 25		Cluster Analysis partitioning methods hierarchical methods density-based methods Showcase: Clustering	Chp. 7
9	Oct. 30 & Nov. 1	Project 3 & Test 3 HW	Cluster Analysis (cont.) grid-based methods model-based methods Project 3 discussion and Test 3	Chp. 7
10	Nov. 6 & 8	HW	Anomaly Detection statistical approaches proximity-based approaches density-based approaches reconstruction-based approaches Showcase: Anomaly Detection	Chp. 9
11	Nov. 13 & 15	Project 4 & Test 4 HW	Advanced topics Text mining Showcase: Text Mining Project 4 discussion and Test 4	text mining materials marked with ** on Ruiz' lecture notes
	Nov. 20	HW	Advanced topics (cont.) Sequence mining
12	Nov. 27 & 29		Advanced topics (cont.) Data Visualization Multimedia data mining Showcase: Data Visualization	Sect. 7.4 all visualization materials on Ruiz' lecture notes
13	Dec. 4 & 6	Project 5 & Test 5	Advanced topics (cont.) Web mining Ethical and Societal Implications of Data Mining Showcase: Web Mining Project 5 presentations and Test 5	all web mining materials on Ruiz' lecture notes
14	Dec. 11 & 13		Project 5 presentations and discussion (cont.)