| Date | Due | Topic | Chapter | ||
| Th | Aug 26 | Introduction to KDD and Data Mining (Part I) | 1 | ||
| Fr | Aug 27 | Introduction to KDD and Data Mining (Part II) | 1 | ||
| Mo | Aug 30 | Input: Concepts, Instances, Attributes | 2, 8 | ||
| Tu | Aug 31 | Output: Knowledge Representation | 3, 8 | ||
| Th | Sept 02 | Decision Trees (I) | 4.3, 6.1 | ||
| Fr | Sept 03 | Decision Trees (II) | 4.3, 6.1 | ||
| Tu | Sept 07 | Evaluation of Patterns | 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 | ||
| Th | Sept 09 | HW1 | Classification Rules (I) | 4.1, 4.4, 6.2 | |
| Fr | Sept 10 | Proj1 | Association Rules (I) | 4.5 | |
| Mo | Sept 13 | Project 1 in-class Presentations | |||
| Tu | Sept 14 | HW2 | Classification Rules (II) | 4.1, 4.4, 6.2 | |
| Th | Sept 16 | Association Rules (II) | 4.5 | ||
| Fr | Sept 17 | ** EXAM 1 ** | |||
| Mo | Sept 20 | Numeric Predictions (I) | 4.6, 6.5, 5.8 | ||
| Tu | Sept 21 | Numeric Predictions (II) | 4.6, 6.5, 5.8 | ||
| Th | Sept 23 | Instance-based Learning | 4.7, 6.4 | ||
| Fr | Sept 24 | Proj2 | Clustering (I) | 6.6 | |
| Mo | Sept 27 | Project 2 in-class Presentations | |||
| Tu | Sept 28 | Clustering (II) | 6.6 | ||
| Th | Sept 30 | Summary Mining Methods, Domain Knowledge | 9.1, 9.3 | ||
| Fr | Oct 01 | HW3 | Visualization | 9.2 | |
| Mo | Oct 04 | Proj3 | Text Mining, Web Mining | 9.4, 9.5 | |
| Tu | Oct 05 | Project 3 in-class Presentations | |||
| Th | Oct 07 | Research topics - Scientific Applications | |||
| Fr | Oct 08 | HW4 | Research topics - Industrial Applications | ||
| Mo | Oct 11 | Proj4 | Catch up and Review | ||
| Tu | Oct 13 | Project 4 in-class Presentations | |||
| Th | Oct 14 | ** EXAM 2 ** |