Spring 2007 Schedule (ISQS 6347)

 

Class meetings: MWF 11:00-12:50p, BA363 (Lab) /BA268 (Lectures)

 

RG = Data Mining, Roiger and Gertz

TSK = Introduction to Data Mining, Tan, Steinbach, and Kumar

 

Date

Day

Contents

Readings

Exercises

Notes

Mar 5

Monday

Introduction

slides, RG1

 

  

Mar 7

Wednesday

Data mining fundamentals

slides, RG2

 

  

Mar 9

Friday

Data mining techniques & tools

slides, RG3

HW1

Quiz 1

Mar 12-16

 

Spring break

 

 

 

Mar 19

Monday

SAS Enterprise Miner

slides

 

 

Mar 21

Wednesday

Decision trees

SAS readings (View PDF (2.24MB))

 

 

Mar 23

Friday

Decision trees

TSK4

HW2

 

Mar 26

Monday

Regression

Slides, RG10

 

Quiz 2, Ex 1

Mar 28

Wednesday

Variable selection

Slides, RG10

 

Ex 2 (Classification modeling contest)

Mar 30

Friday

Neural networks

Slides, RG8

HW3

 

Apr 2

Monday

Clustering

Slides, TSK8

 

Quiz 3

Apr 4

Wednesday

Clustering

TSK8

 

 

Apr 6

Friday

Association analysis

Slides, TSK6

HW4

Ex 3 (Clustering)

Apr 9

Monday

Eastern

 

 

 

Apr 11

Wednesday

Association analysis

 

 

Quiz 4 (Clustering)

Apr 13

Friday

Association analysis demonstration, Text mining preliminaries

Slides

HW5

Project 1 due, Ex 4 (Association analysis)

Apr 16

Monday

Text mining - Preliminaries

Slides, Getting Started with SAS Text Miner  (947KB)

 

Quiz 5 (Association Analysis)

Apr 18

Wednesday

Text Mining - Exploratory analysis of documents

Slides

 

 

Apr 20

Friday

Text Mining - Predictive modeling

Slides

HW6

Ex 5 (Text Mining)

Apr 23

Monday

Web mining 

Slides

 

Quiz 6 (Text mining)

Apr 25

Wednesday

Web mining 

Slides

 

 

Apr 27

Friday

Web mining 

 

HW7 (prepare for the discussion)

Ex 6 (Web mining)

Apr 30

Monday

Discussion – Online Recommender Systems

 

 

Quiz 7, Ex 7 (Recommender system)

4-May

Friday

(2:00-3:00p)

Final Exam

(BA 268)

 

 

 

7-May

Monday

 

 

 

Project 2  due