WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department
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CS 4445 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases 
Schedule of Classes - B Term 2010

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
Tu Oct 26   Introduction to KDD and Data Mining 1
Fr Oct 29   Data, Data Preprocessing, Measures of Similarity 2
Tu Nov 02   Data Exploration, Visualization, OLAP 3
Fr Nov 05 Proj1 Decision Trees
Project 1 in-class presentations
4.1-4.3
Tu Nov 09   Model Evaluation 4.5-4.6
Fr Nov 12   Rule Based Classifiers 5.1
Tu Nov 16 Proj2
(with solutions)
Nearest-Neighbor Classifiers
Project 2 in-class presentations
5.2
Fr Nov 19   Review and ** EXAM 1 **
Exam 1 topics & sample questions
EXAM 1 solutions
 
Tu Nov 23 Proj3
(with solutions)
Association Rules
Project 3 in-class presentations
6.1-6.3, 6.7
Tu Nov 30   Clustering 8.1-8.4
Fr Dec 03 Proj4
(with solutions)
Clustering
Project 4 in-class presentations
8.5
Tu Dec 07   Anomaly Detection 10
Fr Dec 10   Review and ** EXAM 2 **
Exam 2 topics & sample questions
EXAM 2 without solutions
(electronic solutions are not available)
 
Tu Dec 14 Proj5 Project 5 in-class presentations