DCS 861B Data Mining

  • Instructor: Prof. Sung-Hyuk Cha


  • Meeting:

  • Textbook:Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank, Data Mining Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations, Morgan Kaufmann, (1999)

  • Course Goal:
    The goal of this course is to introduce students to current machine learning and data mining methods. It is intended to provide enough background to allow students to apply machine learning and data mining techniques to learning problems in a variety of application areas.

  • Project: for description, click here.

  • Online Quiz: There will be four quizzes based on the previous lecture materials and reading assignments. Each quiz is due Friday morning, the day before the meeting. Quizzes are found in the blackboard.
  • Schedule:

    WeekTopicAssignments
    Meeting 1
    Sept 11
    Intro & Decision Tree Chap 1 & 2
    Meeting 2
    Oct 9
    Associate Rules
    Chap 3 & 4
    Meeting 3
    Nov 6
    Clustering Chap 5 & 6
    Meeting 4
    Dec 4
    Pattern Matching Chap 7 & 9
    Meeting 5
    Dec 18
    Prj presentation  

  • Evaluation:
    • Project (50%):
    • Online Quiz (40%): There will be three quizzes based on the previous lecture materials and reading assignments. Each quiz is due Friday morning, the day before the meeting.
    • Attendance (10%):