5Class Outline for Data Mining (CSCI 550) in Fall 2010.

Instructor: Dr. Rafal A. Angryk;

Prerequisites: Some statistics and some databases and a solid, “graduate-level” brain on the top of that.

Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00-9:50AM at EPS 108

Course Web page: http://www.cs.montana.edu/courses/csci550/ (may change, as we progress toward unified course numbers system)

Your points/grades can be checked here

Please check the errata of the textbook draft before you try to identify potential errors in the textbook.

* All requested readings need to be done BEFORE the class. During each of the meetings, the students may be tested via "daily quizzes" on the readings which has been assigned for the particular day.

Abbreviation PR in the table below stands for "Graduate Course PRoject".

Date	Readings*	Lecture	Extras ...
30-Aug, Mon		Syllabus; Intro to CSCI550	(1) Read carefully My General Class Policies, (2) Check out popular DM Portal, (3) Read Ch.1 from your textbook, (4) Have a look at the IEEE formatting rules for your final paper, (5) Fill out Let’s meet form.
1-Sep, Wed	Ch.1.	Introduction to DM	(1) Check out WEKA and Matlab software and its DM capabilities, (2) Check out two industrial DM methodologies: CRISP-DM and SEMMA, (3) Read Ch.2 from your textbook,
3-Sep, Fri		-continued
6-Sep, Mon		Labor Day holiday	No Classes; Offices Closed
8-Sep, Wed		-continued
10-Sep, Fri	Ch.2.	Data Preprocessing (1)	(1) Check Out this website on Graphical Data Analysis, (2) 1st Homework - Paper Review. Review form is here, (3) No idea how to review a paper- Ask me and check out Parberry's Referee's Guide, (4) PR: Here is an EXCELLENT tutorial that could help you, when working on review and your final project. I highly recommend that you at least read Part 2 (it starts on slide 68)!
13-Sep, Mon		-continued
15-Sep, Wed	Ch.2 & 4.3.	Data Preprocessing (2)	I extended Data Preprocessing (1) slides (last page!), to answer one good question I got after the class. We’ll go through the changes during the next meeting.
17-Sep, Fri		-continued	Interested in Box-Cox Transformation? Check out these links: (1) What to do when data are non-normal, and (2) Power Transform Family Graphs
20-Sep, Mon		-continued
22-Sep, Wed		GAOI	1) Please, make sure to bring copies of the reviewed paper to class!!!
24-Sep, Fri		-continued	1) Please, make sure to bring copies of the reviewed paper to class!!!
27-Sep, Mon	Ch.5.	Frequent Patterns (1)
29-Sep, Wed		-continued	(1) 2nd Homework – DataSet1 and DataSet3 are here.
1-Oct, Fri		-continued
4-Oct, Mon		-continued
6-Oct, Wed	Ch.5.4	Frequent Patterns (2)
8-Oct, Fri		-continued
11-Oct, Mon		Homework 2 Review
13-Oct, Wed		TEST 1
15-Oct, Fri	Ch.5.5	Frequent Patterns (3)
18-Oct, Mon		Let’s Talk about Projects	Here is an EXCELLENT tutorial that could help you, when working on your final project: 4-slides per page version (and link to the original is here). Read at least Part 2 (it starts on slide 68)!
20-Oct, Wed	Ch.7-7.3	Clustering (1)
22-Oct, Fri		- continued
25-Oct, Mon	Ch. 7.4	Clustering (2)
27-Oct, Wed	Ch. 7.5	Clustering (3)
29-Oct, Fri	Ch. 7.6-.7	Clustering (4)
1-Nov, Mon		- continued
3-Nov, Wed	Ch. 7.6-.8, .11	Clustering (5)	Project Proposals are due.
5-Nov, Fri		- continued
8-Nov, Mon		Clustering (6) - Evaluation
10-Nov, Wed		PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS (1)	PROJECTS
12-Nov, Fri		PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS (2)	PROJECTS
15-Nov, Mon		PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS (3)	PROJECTS
17-Nov, Wed	Ch.6-6.3	Classification (1)
19-Nov, Fri		-continued	Literature Review is due.
22-Nov, Mon	Ch.6.12-.15	Classification (2) - Evaluation
24-Nov, Wed		Thanksgiving Day holiday	No Classes; Offices Closed
26-Nov, Fri		Thanksgiving Day holiday	No Classes; Offices Closed
29-Nov, Mon		Classification (3)
1-Dec, Wed		TEST 2
3-Dec, Fri		Dimensionality Reduction
6- Dec, Mon		PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS (1)	Mark+Jeff E.+Devin, Richard+Mike, Scott
8- Dec, Wed		PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS (2)	Patrick+Shane, Dennis+Karthik, Swapan+Travis
10- Dec, Fri		PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS (3)	Jeff B. , Liessman, Michael RW, Chandrima+Atanu Papers on Projects are due at the beginning of the class
13-Dec, Mon		FINAL EXAM: 8:30-9:50am, in EPS 108