ISQS 6347, Data and Text Mining

Spring 2009 Schedule

Class meetings: MW 11:00a-12:20p, BA363 (Lab), LH005 (Lectures)

Textbooks

SPB: Data Mining for Business Intelligence Galit Shmueli, Nitin R. Patel, Peter C. Bruce,

TSK: Introduction to Data Mining, Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, and Vipin Kumar

RG: Data Mining – A Tutorial Based Primer, Richard Roiger, Michael Geatz

Date	Day	Contents	Readings	Exercises	Notes
7-Jan	Wed	Introduction	SPB1, TSK1, RG1
12-Jan	Mon	Data mining fundamentals	SPB2, RG2
14-Jan	Wed	Data mining fundamentals	SPB3, TSK3, SAS1 (3.71MB)	HW1 (due 1/21)
19-Jan	Mon	Martin Luther King Jr.’s Day – No class
21-Jan	Wed	Classification modeling	SPB4, TSK4, RG4
26-Jan	Mon	Classification modeling	SPB7, TSK4, RG3, SAS2 (2.24MB)		Quiz 1 (Data mining concepts)
28-Jan	Wed	Illustrative case study	SPB7, TSK4, RG3, ADMT-2	HW2 (due 2/4)
2-Feb	Mon	Classification modeling – logistic regression	SPB8, RG10		Exercise 1 (Decision tree)
4-Feb	Wed	Logistic regression	SPB8, RG10
9-Feb	Mon	Variable selection	SPB7, RG7		Quiz 2 (Classification)
11-Feb	Wed	Neural Network	SPB9, RG8, TSK6	HW3 (due 2/23)
16-Feb	Mon	Neural Network	SPB9, RG8, TSK6
18-Feb	Wed	Review	SPB12, TSK8	HW4 (due 3/4)	Classification modeling contest
23-Feb	Mon	Quiz 3	SPB12, TSK8		Quiz 3 (Neural network, regression)
25-Feb	Wed	Clustering	SPB12, TSK8
2-Mar	Mon	Clustering	SPB12, TSK8		State 0: Project orientation
4-Mar	Wed	Association analysis	SPB11, TSK6		Exercise 2 (Clustering)
9-Mar	Mon	Association analysis	SPB11, TSK6		Quiz 4 (Clustering)
11-Mar	Wed	Association analysis	SPB11, TSK6	HW5 (due 3/23)	Stage 1: Project proposal due (March 13)
16-Mar	Mon	Spring Break
18-Mar	Wed	Spring Break
23-Mar	Mon	Exercise 3	SPB11, TSK6		Exercise 3 (Association analysis)
25-Mar	Wed	Preliminary text mining			Stage 2: Project dataset ready (due March 27, extended to March 30)
30-Mar	Mon	Preliminary text mining		HW6 (Due 4/14)	Quiz 5 (Association Analysis)
1-Apr	Wed	Exploratory analysis of documents
6-Apr	Mon	Exercise 4 (Text mining)			Exercise 4 (Text mining) due April 10, Friday
8-Apr	Wed	Text mining for predictive modeling
13-Apr	Mon	No class
15-Apr	Wed	Conducting a text mining project		HW7 (Optional, Due 4/27)	Stage 3: Project data exploration and pre-analysis (due April 17) Quiz 6 (Text mining)
20-Apr	Mon	Introduction to web mining
22-Apr	Wed	Web mining – Online targeted advertising	SPB3, RG10		Exercise 5 (Web mining, due May 1)
27-Apr	Mon	Web mining - Recommender systems
1-May	Fri	Final Exam (BA 363)			4:30-7:00p Quiz 7 (Text/Web mining)
5-May	Tue				Stage 4: Project report due