| WEEK
| DATE
| DUE
| TOPIC
| READINGS
Tan, Steinbach, Kumar's Textbook
|
| 1
| Jan. 19
|
|
Introduction to KDD & Data Mining
Data & Data Preparation
Concepts, instances, attributes
Data preprocessing
Attribute selection
|
Chp. 1, 2
|
| 2
| Jan. 26
|
|
Data & Data Preparation (cont.)
Data integration
Data warehousing & OLAP
Dimensionality reduction
|
Chp. 3, Appendix B.1
|
| 3
| Feb. 2
| Project 1
|
Mining process
Training and Testing
Cross validation
Performance evaluation
Project 1 discussion and Test 1
|
Sect. 4.5
|
| 4
| Feb. 9
|
|
Classification
Decision trees
Showcase: Decision Trees
|
Sect. 4.1-4.4.
|
| 5
| Feb. 16
|
|
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
| Feb. 23
|
|
Association Analysis
association rules
|
Sec. 6.1-6.3, 6.7-6.9.
|
| 7
| Mar. 1
| Project 2
|
Association Analysis (cont.)
association rules
Project 2 discussion and Test 2
Showcase: Association Rules
|
Chp. 6
|
|
| Mar. 8
|
|
Spring Break
may be needed to make up for weather related cancellations
|
|
| 8
| Mar. 15
|
|
Cluster Analysis
partitioning methods
hierarchical methods
density-based methods
Showcase: Clustering I
|
Chp. 8
|
| 9
| Mar. 22
| Project 3
|
Cluster Analysis (cont.)
grid-based methods
model-based methods
Project 3 discussion and Test 3
Showcase: Clustering II
|
Chp. 8
|
| 10
| Mar. 29
|
|
Anomaly Detection
model-based methods
proximity-based methods
density-based methods
Showcase: Anomaly Detection
|
Chp. 10
|
| 11
| Apr. 5
| Project 4
|
Advanced topics
Visualization
Text mining
Project 4 discussion and Test 4
Showcase: Text Mining
|
Sect. 3.3.
all visualization materials on Ruiz' lecture notes
text mining materials marked with ** on Ruiz' lecture notes
|
| 12
| Apr. 12
|
|
Advanced topics (cont.)
Sequence mining
Multimedia data mining
Showcase: Sequence Mining
|
Sect. 7.4
|
| 13
| Apr. 19
| Project 5
|
Advanced topics (cont.)
Web mining
Industrial applications of data mining
Scientific applications of data mining
Project 5 presentations and Test 5
Showcase: Web Mining
|
all web mining materials on Ruiz' lecture notes
|
| 14
| Apr. 26
|
|
Project 5 presentations and discussion (cont.)
|
|
| 15
| May 3
|
|
To be announced
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