CS548 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 
Showcase Presentation Schedule - Spring 2014

PROF. CAROLINA RUIZ 

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

Jan. 28

• Student's name: Supreeth Gowda
• Topic: RapidMiner
• Other useful materials and links:
  • contact-lens.csv
  • diabetes.csv

Jan. 31

• Student's name: Xuanxing Huang
• Topic: Mozenda
• Short Description: "Extract data from the web".
• Slides: Xuanxing's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides

Feb. 4

• Student's name: Ludymila Lobo de Aguiar Gomes
• Topic: Twitter Calendar
• Short Description: "A demonstration of NLP on twitter showing the most prominent events mentioned in association with each day."
• Slides: Ludymila's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides

Feb. 7

• Student's name: Artem Gritsenko
• Topic: NinjaTrader
• Short Description: Software for live trading, market analytics, advanced charting. Data mining concepts used: data acquizition, vizualization, aggregation, generation of trading rules and strategies (decision trees).
• Slides: Artem's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides

Feb. 11

• Student's name: Tim Marsden
• Topic: Data Mining against Terrorism
• Short Description:
• Slides: Tim's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides

Feb. 14

• Student's name:
• Topic:
• Short Description:
• Slides: student's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:

Feb. 25

• Student's name: Ahmedul Kabir
• Topic: Regression using SPSS
• Short Description:
• Slides: Kabir's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides

Feb. 28

• Student's name: Xinyue Liu
• Topic: Mining Geo Data to Predict Disease Transmission
• Short Description:
• Slides: Xinyue's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides

Mar. 4

• Student's name:
• Topic:
• Short Description:
• Slides: student's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:

Mar. 7

• Student's name: Seth Adjei
• Topic: Using Data Mining for Screening Tax Returns
• Short Description:
• Slides: Seth's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • DeBarr, D. and Z. Eyler-Walker. "Closing the Gap: Automated Screening of Tax Returns to Identify Egregious Tax Shelters" SIGKDD Explorations, Volume 8, Number 1, June 2006. pp. 11-16. 2006.
    Also available online.

Mar. 18

• Student's name: Mohammed Ayub
• Topic: Data Mining in Sports
• Short Description: Brief history of the topic followed by a deeper focus on data mining in Soccer.
• Slides: Mohammed's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • Youtube video: Demonstrating the working of Milan Lab
  • Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Na Zhao. "An Enhanced Query Model for Soccer Video Retrieval Using Temporal Relationships". In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering, 2005. ICDE 2005. pp. 1133-1134.

Mar. 21

• Student's name:
• Topic:
• Short Description:
• Slides: student's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:

Mar. 25

• Student's name: Manik Chaudhari
• Topic: Mining Machine Data for Healthcare IT using Spluck
• Short Description:
• Slides: Manik's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides

Mar. 28

• Student's name: Qi (Logan) Li
• Topic: Text Mining in Biomedical Research
• Short Description:
• Slides: Logan's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • Rebholz-Schuhmann D., Oellrich A., Hoehndorf R. "Text-mining solutions for biomedical research: enabling integrative biology". Nature Reviews Genetics. 2012 Dec;13(12):829-39. doi: 10.1038/nrg3337. Epub 2012 Nov 14.
  • Ross D. King et al. "The Automation of Science". Science 324, 85 (2009); DOI: 10.1126/science.1165620.

Apr. 1

• Student's name:
• Topic:
• Short Description:
• Slides: student's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:

Apr. 4

• Student's name: Wenxin Zhao
• Topic: Recommender Systems
• Short Description:
• Slides: Wenxin's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • Wenxin's RAR file with a Matlab program for recommender systems
  • Wenxin's ZIP file with a Matlab program for recommender systems

Apr. 8

• Student's name: Xue Li
• Topic:Clustering in R.
• Short Description:
• Slides: Xue's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • iris.csv
  • clustering_xue.R
  • R_tutorials.rar
    Tutorials in the above rar file were taken from:
    • http://www.r-project.org/
    • http://www.statmethods.net/advstats/cluster.html
    • http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_name.html
    • http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/
    • http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cluster/index.html
    • http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fpc/index.html

• Student's name: Alexis Espinoza
• Topic: Data mining in Politics
• Short Description:
• Slides: Alexis' presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • http://poy.time.com/2012/12/19/obamas-data-team/
  • http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/07/inside-the-secret-world-of-quants-and-data-crunchers-who-helped-obama-win/
  • http://infospace.ischool.syr.edu/2013/01/24/data-mining-in-obamas-2012-victory/
  • http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~jakulin/Politics/
  • http://www.thenation.com/blog/174759/not-just-nsa-politicians-are-data-mining-american-electorate

Apr. 15

• Student's name: Hang Cai
• Topic: Using Data Mining in the Identification of Compromised Sensors
• Short Description:
• Slides: Hang's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides

Apr. 18

• Student's name: Chu Xu
• Topic: Data Mining in Music
• Short Description:
• Slides: Chu's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides

Apr. 22

• Student's name: Xuebin He.
• Topic: Data mining in Traffic.
• Short Description:
• Slides: Xuebin's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • Data Mining Meets Traffic Modeling

Apr. 22

• Student's name: Xiaolu Xiong
• Topic: Data mining with Python
• Short Description:
• Slides: Xiaolu's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • Demo:
    • CS548S14Showcase_XiongXiaolu_kmean_demo.py
    • ads.csv

Apr. 22

• Student's name: Xiufeng Chen
• Topic: Data Mining in Banking
• Short Description:
• Slides: Xiufeng's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides

Apr. 22

• Student's name: Bawornsak (Blink) Sakulkueakulsuk
• Topic: Data Mining in Robotics Engineering
• Short Description:
• Slides: Blink's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides

Apr. 22

• Student's name: Yuguan Li
• Topic: Moneyball and Data Mining in Basketball
• Short Description:
• Slides: Yuguan's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides

Apr. 25

• Student's name: Ruizhu Yang
• Topic: Earthquake Prediction Using Data Mining
• Short Description:
• Slides: Ruizhu's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • Predicting-Earthquakes-through-Data-Mining
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/10yZPZ27GgTnFIWkBaGJbgN_XC8vYyryzL9v84PkZrc8/edit?pli=1
  • Otari G V, Kulkarni R V. A Review of Application of Data Mining in Earthquake Prediction[J]. 2012.
  • Stolorz P E, Dean C. Quakefinder: A Scalable Data Mining System for Detecting Earthquakes from Space[C]//KDD. 1996: 208-213.

Apr. 29

• Student's name: Yuqing Yang
• Topic: Visualizing Association Rules
• Short Description:
• Slides: Yuqing's presentation slides
• Other useful materials and links:
  • already included in the presentation slides