CSEP 546 - Data Mining

University of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering

CSEP 546 - Data Mining - Spring 2003

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Instructor: Pedro Domingos
Office: Sieg 216
Office hours: Wednesdays 5:30-6:20, and by appointment TA: Parag
Office: Sieg 226a
Office hours: Wednesdays 5:30-6:20, and by appointment

Class meets:
Wednesdays 6:30-9:20 in EE1 037

Lectures

Week	Topics & Lecture Notes
Week 1 (Apr 2)	Introduction; data warehousing and OLAP PPT , PDF
Week 2 (Apr 9)	Inductive learning, decision trees PPT , PDF
Week 3 (Apr 16)	Rule induction PPT, PDF
Week 4 (Apr 23)	Bayesian learning PPT, PDF
Week 5 (Apr 30)	Neural networks PPT, PDF
Week 6 (May 7)	Genetic algorithms, model ensembles PPT, PDF
Week 7 (May 14)	Instance-based learning PPT, PDF
Week 8 (May 21)	Learning theory PPT, PDF
Week 9 (May 28)	Association rules PPT, PDF
Week 10 (June 4)	Clustering PPT, PDF

Assignments

There will be two projects and three homework assignments. You are expected to work individually on the homeworks, and in groups of two on the projects.

Schedule	Assignment	% of Grade	Topic
Weeks 2-3	Homework 1	12.5	Data warehousing and OLAP, decision trees
Weeks 3-6	Project 1	37.5	Clickstream mining
Weeks 6-7	Homework 2	12.5	Rule ind., Bayesian learning, neural nets, GAs, ensembles
Weeks 7-9	Project 2	25	Text classification
Weeks 9-10	Homework 3	12.5	IBL, theory, association rules

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Textbooks

Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000. (Required)
Tom Mitchell, Machine Learning, McGraw-Hill, 1997. (Required)

Papers

G. John, Behind-the-scenes data mining, SIGKDD Explorations, 1999.
T. Dietterich, Machine-learning research: Four current directions, AI Magazine, 1997.
P. Domingos, A unified bias-variance decomposition, Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2000.

Readings

Week 1: Chapters 1 and 2 of Han & Kamber and Behind-the-scenes data mining
Week 2: Chapter 3 of Mitchell
Week 3: Chapter 10 of Mitchell; review first-order logic
Week 4: Chapter 6 of Mitchell; review probability and statistics
Week 5: Chapter 4 of Mitchell; review calculus
Week 6: Chapter 9 of Mitchell and Section 2 of Machine-learning research: Four current directions
Week 7: Chapter 8 of Mitchell
Week 8: Chapter 7 of Mitchell and A unified bias-variance decomposition
Week 9: Chapter 6 of Han & Kamber
Week 10: Chapter 8 of Han & Kamber

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University of Washington
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