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 2012

PROF. CAROLINA RUIZ 

WARNING: Small changes to this schedule may be made during the course of the term. 
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Week Date Due Topic Book Chapters/Sections
1 Tu Oct 23   Introduction to KDD and Data Mining
Data and Data Preprocessing
1, 2
Th Oct 25  
Fr Oct 26  
2 Mo Oct 29   Data Exploration
Data Visualization
Data Integration and OLAP
Classification: Decision trees
Project 1 presentations
3, 4.1,4.2, 4.3
Tu Oct 30  
Th Nov 01  
Fr Nov 02 Proj1
3 Mo Nov 05   Classification: Model Evaluation
Classification: Bayesian Nets
Project 2 presentations
4.5, 5.3
Tu Nov 06  
Th Nov 08  
Fr Nov 09 Proj2
(with solutions)
4 Mo Nov 12   Classification Rules
Association Rules
Project 3 presentations
5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Tu Nov 13  
Th Nov 15  
Fr Nov 16 Proj3
(with solutions)
5 Mo Nov 19 Exam1
solutions
Exam 1 topics & sample questions
** Exam 1 **
Association Rules (cont.)
6.7
Tu Nov 20  
6 Mo Nov 26   Clustering
Project 4 presentations
8
Tu Nov 27  
Th Nov 29  
Fr Nov 30 Proj4
(with solutions)
7 Mo Dec 03   Anomaly Detection
Text Mining
Web Mining
Project 5 presentations
10
Tu Dec 04  
Th Dec 06  
Fr Dec 07 Proj5
(with solutions)
8 Mo Dec 10   Review
Exam 2 topics & sample questions
** Exam 2 **
Final Remarks
 
Tu Dec 11 Exam2
solutions
Th Dec 13