Spring 2006 Schedule (ISQS 6347)
Class meetings: TTh
12:30-1:50p, BA363 (Lab) /BA056 (Lectures)
Required:
Data Mining, Roiger
and Gertz (RG)
Optional:
Introduction to Data Mining, Tan,
Steinbach, and Kumar (TSK)
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Date |
Day |
Contents |
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Exercises |
Notes |
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12-Jan |
Thursday |
Introduction |
RG1, TSK1, slides |
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17-Jan |
Tuesday |
Data mining fundamentals |
RG1&2, slides |
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19-Jan |
Thursday |
Data mining fundamentals |
RG1&2, TSK2 |
HW1 |
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24-Jan |
Tuesday |
Data mining techniques & tools |
RG2&4, slides |
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26-Jan |
Thursday |
SAS |
RG4, SAS readings (View
PDF (3.71MB)) slides |
HW2 |
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31-Jan |
Tuesday |
SAS Enterprise Miner |
SAS readings (View
PDF (2.24MB)) |
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Quiz 1 (Data mining concepts) |
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2-Feb |
Thursday |
Decision trees |
RG3, TSK4 |
HW3 |
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7-Feb |
Tuesday |
Decision trees |
RG3, TSK4 |
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9-Feb |
Thursday |
Regression |
RG10, SAS readings |
HW4 |
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14-Feb |
Tuesday |
Variable selection |
RG7, SAS readings |
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Quiz 2 (Decision Tree, Regression) |
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16-Feb |
Thursday |
Clustering |
RG3&10, TSK8 |
HW5 |
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21-Feb |
Tuesday |
Clustering |
RG3&10, TSK8 |
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23-Feb |
Thursday |
Clustering |
RG3&10, TSK8 |
HW6 |
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28-Feb |
Tuesday |
Association analysis |
RG3&7, TSK6 |
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Quiz 3 (Clustering) |
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2-Mar |
Thursday |
Association analysis |
RG3&7, TSK6 |
HW7 |
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7-Mar |
Tuesday |
Association analysis |
RG3&7, TSK6 |
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9-Mar |
Thursday |
Neural networks |
RG8, TSK5 |
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Quiz 4 (Association analysis) |
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14-Mar |
Tuesday |
Spring Break |
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16-Mar |
Thursday |
Spring Break |
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21-Mar |
Tuesday |
Tuning up data mining models |
RG5&8, SAS readings |
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23-Mar |
Thursday |
Tuning up data mining models |
RG7&11, SAS readings |
HW8 |
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28-Mar |
Tuesday |
Text mining preliminaries |
SAS readings (View
PDF (947KB)) |
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Quiz 5 (Neural Networks, Model
tune-up) |
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30-Mar |
Thursday |
Text mining preliminaries |
SAS readings |
HW9 |
Project 1
due |
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4-Apr |
Tuesday |
Exploratory analysis of documents |
SAS readings |
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6-Apr |
Thursday |
Exploratory analysis of documents |
SAS readings |
HW10 |
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11-Apr |
Tuesday |
Predictive modeling |
SAS readings |
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Quiz 6 (Text mining) |
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13-Apr |
Thursday |
Predictive modeling |
SAS readings |
HW11 |
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18-Apr |
Tuesday |
Web mining |
RG11, SAS readings |
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20-Apr |
Thursday |
Web mining |
RG11, SAS readings |
HW12 |
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25-Apr |
Tuesday |
Web mining |
SAS readings |
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27-Apr |
Thursday |
Web mining |
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2-May |
Tuesday |
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Quiz 7 (Text/Web mining) |
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6-May |
Saturday (11a-12:30p) |
Final Exam (BA 363) |
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8-May |
Monday |
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Project 2 due |