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CSEP 546 - Data Mining - Spring 2016
Tuesdays 6:30-9:20pm in Allen Center rm. 305 and MS Bldg. 99 rm. 1915 (simulcast)
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Instructor: Pedro Domingos (pedrod at cs)
Office hours:Tuesdays 5:30-6:20pm & by appointment, CSE 648


TA: Angli Liu (anglil at cs)
Office hours:Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm at CSE 021 & by appointment
TA: Fereshteh Sadeghi (fsadeghi at cs)
Office hours:Tuesdays 5:30-6:20pm at CSE 614 & by appointment

Schedule

Week Dates Topics & Lecture Notes Readings
1 March 29 Introduction (ppt, pdf), inductive learning (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 1; Duda, Ch. 1; paper
2 April 5 Decision trees (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 3; Duda, Ch. 8
3 April 12 Rule induction (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 10; Duda, Ch. 8
4 April 19 Instance-based learning (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 8; Duda, Ch. 4
5 April 26 Bayesian learning (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 6; Duda, Ch. 2 & 3
6 May 3 Neural networks (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 4; Duda, Ch. 6
7 May 10 Model ensembles (ppt, pdf) Duda, Ch. 9
8 May 17 Learning theory (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 7; Duda, Ch. 9; paper
9 May 24 Support vector machines (ppt, pdf) Duda, Ch. 5
10 May 31 Clustering and dimensionality reduction (ppt, pdf)
Dimensionality reduction (PCA) (ppt, pdf)
Duda, Ch. 10

Video Archives and Live Streamed Lectures

Online Course

Textbooks

Assignments

There will be four assignments handed out on weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8; they are due two weeks later. Each assignment is worth 25% of the final grade. Submit online here.

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