CS 548 Spring 2014 - Schedule of Classes

Computer Science Department

CS548 Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Schedule of Classes - Spring 2014

PROF. CAROLINA RUIZ

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

WEEK	DATE	DUE	TOPIC	READINGS
1	Jan. 17		Introduction to KDD & Data Mining	Chp. 1 & 2
2	Jan. 21 & 24		Data & Data Preparation Concepts, instances, attributes Data preprocessing Attribute selection	Chp. 2 & 3
3	Jan. 28 & 31		Data & Data Preparation (cont.) Data integration Data warehousing & OLAP Dimensionality reduction Showcases	Chp. 2 & 3, Appendix B
4	Feb. 4 & 7	Project 1	Mining process Training and Testing Cross validation Performance evaluation Project 1 discussion and test Showcases	Sect. 4.5
5	Feb. 11 & 14		Classification Decision trees Showcases	Sect. 4.1-4.4.
6	Feb. 18 & 21		Numeric Predictions linear regression model trees regression trees Showcases	Appendix D, assigned readings
7	Feb. 25 & 28		Association Analysis association rules Showcases	Sec. 6.1-6.3, 6.7-6.9.
8	Mar. 4 & 7	Project 2	Project 2 discussion and test Association Analysis (cont.) association rules Showcases	Chp. 6
9	Mar. 18 & 21		Cluster Analysis partitioning methods hierarchical methods density-based methods Showcases	Chp. 8
10	Mar. 25 & 28	Project 3	Cluster Analysis (cont.) grid-based methods model-based methods Project 3 discussion and test Showcases	Chp. 8
11	Apr. 1 & 4		Anomaly Detection model-based methods proximity-based methods density-based methods Showcases	Chp. 10
12	Apr. 8 & 11	Project 4	Advanced topics Visualization Web mining Project 4 discussion and test Showcases	assigned papers
13	Apr. 15 & 18		Advanced topics (cont.) Sequence mining Multimedia data mining Showcases	assigned papers
14	Apr. 22 & 25	Project 5	** Classroom for April 22nd: Goddard Hall GH012 Advanced topics** (cont.) Text mining Industrial applications of data mining Scientific applications of data mining Project 5 presentations and discussion Showcases	assigned papers
15	Apr. 29		Project 5 presentations and discussion (cont.) Final remarks Showcases	assigned papers