WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department
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CS 4445 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases 
Schedule of Classes - A Term 2008

PROF. CAROLINA RUIZ 

WARNING: Small changes to this schedule may be made during the course of the term. 
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Date Due Topic Chapter
Fr Aug 29   Introduction to KDD and Data Mining 1, 9
Tu Sep 02   Input: Concepts, Instances, Attributes
Output: Knowledge Representation
Evaluation of Patterns
2, 7.1-7.2
3
5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Fr Sep 05 Proj0 Decision Trees
Project 0 in-class presentations
4.3, 6.1
Tu Sep 09 HW1 Classification Rules 4.1, 4.4, 6.2
Fr Sep 12 Proj1 Association Rules
Project 1 in-class presentations
4.5
Tu Sep 16   Numeric Predictions (I) 4.6, 6.5, 5.8
Fr Sep 19 HW2 & Proj2 Numeric Predictions (II)
Project 2 in-class presentations
4.6, 6.5, 5.8
Tu Sep 23   Instance-based Learning 4.7, 6.4
Fr Sep 26   Review and ** EXAM 1 **  
Tu Sep 30 HW3 Clustering 6.6
Fr Oct 03 Proj3 Visualization
Project 3 in-class presentations
 
Tu Oct 07 HW4 Text Mining, Web Mining 8.3
Fr Oct 10 Proj4 Research topics - Scientific and Industrial Applications
Project 4 in-class presentations
 
Tu Oct 14   Review and ** EXAM 2 **