Class Outline for Data Mining (CS 530) in Fall
2008.
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 350
Course Web page: http://www.cs.montana.edu/courses/530/
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".
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Date |
Readings* |
Lecture |
Extras ... |
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3-Sep, Wed |
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(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. |
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5-Sep, Fri |
Ch.1. |
(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, (4) 1st Homework -
Paper Review. Review
form is here, (5) No idea how to
review a paper? Check out Parberry's
Referee's Guide |
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8-Sep, Mon |
Ch.1. |
Introduction to DM - cont. |
Read Ch.2 from your textbook. |
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9-Sep, Tue |
Ch.2. |
Place: EPS 350, 11:00-12:50, (1) Check Out this
website on Graphical
Data Analysis |
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10-Sep, Wed |
Ch.2. |
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12-Sep, Fri |
Ch.2. |
Data Preprocessing ? cont. |
Read Ch.4.3 from your textbook. |
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15-Sep, Mon |
Ch. 2 |
Data Preprocessing ? cont. |
(1) Part 1 of 1st Homework is Due, (2) Read Ch.5
from your textbook. |
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16-Sep, Tue |
Ch. 4.3 |
Attribute-Oriented
Induction |
Place: EPS 350, 11:00-12:50 |
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17-Sep, Wed |
Ch. 5 |
Data Types and Properties and ?Frequent Patterns
Discovery (1) |
Read Ch.5 from
your textbook. |
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19-Sep, Fri |
Ch. 5 |
Frequent
Patterns Discovery (1)
? cont. |
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22-Sep, Mon |
Ch. 5 |
Frequent
Patterns Discovery (1)
? cont. |
(1) Part 2 of 1st Homework is
Due, (2) PR - Start searching
for (a) project idea, (b) literature, (3) data |
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23-Sep, Tue |
Ch. 5 |
Frequent
Patterns Discovery (1)
? cont. |
Place: EPS 350, 11:00-12:50 |
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24-Sep, Wed |
Ch. 5 |
Frequent
Patterns Discovery (1)
? cont. |
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26-Sep, Fri |
Ch. 5 |
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29-Sep, Mon |
Ch. 5 |
Read Ch.7 from your textbook |
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1-Oct, Wed |
(1) 2nd Homework
to be distributed, (2) Here is article on
FP-Algorithm, (3) You may want to check out some Students PRs from the
past: PR1, PR2, PR3, PR4. |
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3-Oct, Fri |
Ch. 7 |
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6-Oct, Mon |
Ch. 7 |
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8-Oct, Wed |
Ch. 7 |
PR - Project
Pre-Proposals are due before the class! Time to negotiate date for the exam. |
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10-Oct, Fri |
Ch. 7 |
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13-Oct, Mon |
Ch. 7 |
Cluster
Analysis (4) ? cont. |
2nd Homework is
Due |
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15-Oct, Wed |
Ch. 7 |
Cluster
Analysis (4) ? cont. |
Here is a
tutorial on Clustering
of Moderate-to-High Dimensional Data |
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17-Oct, Fri |
Here is a
tutorial on Clustering
with Constraints |
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20-Oct, Mon |
Ch. 7 |
Read Ch.6 from your textbook |
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22-Oct, Wed |
Ch. 6.1-6.3 |
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24-Oct, Fri |
TEST 1: 2
HOURS! |
Exact date has been decided! Time: 9-11:00am, Place: CS
Conference Room. Covers
following chapters: 1, 2, 4.3, 5 & 7. |
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27-Oct, Mon |
TRAVEL |
ACM Read Ch.6 from your textbook |
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29-Oct, Wed |
TRAVEL |
ACM CIKM |
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31-Oct, Fri |
TRAVEL |
ACM CIKM |
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3-Nov, Mon |
Ch. 6.4-6.5 |
PR - Literature
Review (with Motivation) + Detailed draft of your approach are due! |
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5-Nov, Wed |
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REPORTS ON THE PROJECTS |
PR - Present outline of your approach (send me 3-4 slides
24 hrs. before the class). |
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7-Nov, Fri |
Ch. 6.12-6.15 |
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10-Nov, Mon |
Ch. 9.1 |
Read ?State
of the Art of Graph-based D.M.? and Ch.9.1 from your textbook. |
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12-Nov, Wed |
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REPORTS ON THE PROJECTS |
PR - Report on
your progress (5 min. each): Steps already completed, and things still to do.
4 weeks left! |
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14-Nov, Fri |
Paper |
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17-Nov, Mon |
Ch. 9.1 |
?Here is the paper on gIndex. |
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19-Nov, Wed |
REPORTS ON THE PROJECTS |
?3 weeks left! |
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21-Nov, Fri |
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PROJECTS |
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24-Nov, Mon |
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PROJECTS |
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26-Nov, Wed |
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PROJECTS |
?2 weeks left! |
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28-Nov, Fri |
Thanksgiving Day holiday (no classes) |
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1- Dec, Mon |
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PROJECTS |
PR - Implementation Results
are due! |
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3- Dec, Wed |
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PROJECTS |
ONLY 1 week left! |
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5- Dec, Fri |
PROJECTS |
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8-Dec, Mon |
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PROJECTS |
PR - Final Paper is due on Tue (Dec 09, 2008 at 4 PM)! |
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10-Dec, Wed |
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Grad. PR. Presentations |
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12-Dec, Fri |
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Grad. PR. Presentations |
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18-Dec, Thur |
FINAL EXAM (20%) 4-5:50PM
in EPS 350 |
Study! Study! Study! |
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