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CSEP 546 - Data Mining - Spring 2017
Thursdays 6:30-9:20pm in Smith Hall room 102
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Instructor: Pedro Domingos (pedrod at cs)
Office hours: Thursdays 5:30-6:20pm & by appointment, CSE 648


TA: Svet Kolev (swetko at cs)
Office hours: Thursdays 5:30-6:20pm at CSE 021 & by appointment
TA: Alon Milchgrub (alonmil at cs)
Office hours: Thursdays 5:30-6:20pm at CSE 220 & by appointment

Schedule

Week Dates Topics & Lecture Notes Readings
1 March 30 Introduction (ppt, pdf), inductive learning (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 1; Duda, Ch. 1; paper
2 April 6 Decision trees (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 3; Duda, Ch. 8
3 April 13 Rule induction (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 10; Duda, Ch. 8
4 April 20 Instance-based learning (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 8; Duda, Ch. 4
5 April 27 Bayesian learning (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 6; Duda, Ch. 2 & 3
6 May 4 Neural networks (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 4; Duda, Ch. 6
7 May 11 Model ensembles (ppt, pdf) Duda, Ch. 9
8 May 18 Learning theory (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 7; Duda, Ch. 9; paper
9 May 25 Support vector machines (ppt, pdf) Duda, Ch. 5
10 June 1 Clustering and dimensionality reduction (ppt, pdf)
Duda, Ch. 10

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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