Instructor:
Dr.
Jessica Lin
Office:
Engineering Building, Room 4419
Phone:
703-993-4693
Email:
jessica [AT] cs [DOT] gmu [DOT] edu
Office
Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 3-4pm
Classes
Thursday
4:30-7:10pm
Innovation Hall 206
Prerequisite:
INFS 755 or CS 659 (previously CS 750) or equivalent
data mining course, or permission of
instructor. Some
programming skills required.
Textbooks
Required
You will be
given reading materials during the class.
Optional
Data
Mining:
Concepts and Techniques, 2nd Edition, Morgan Kauffmann Publishers,
March 2006. ISBN 1-55860-901-6.
Course Description:
This course covers advanced techniques for managing,
searching, and mining of various types of data such as text, web links,
images, time series, video, and audio. Issues related to handling such
data will be discussed, including feature selection, high dimensional
indexing, interactive search and information retrieval, pattern
discovery, and scalability.
Grading
Class
Participation: 5%
Assignments: 25%
Midterm: 20%
Project: 30%
Take-home Final: 20%
Honor Code
Statement
Please be
familiar with the GMU
Honor Code. In addition, the CS department has its
own Honor
Code policies. Any deviation from this is
considered
an Honor Code violation.
Disability
Accommodations
If you are
a student
with a disability and you need academic accommodations, please see me
and contact the Office of Disability Services (ODS) at 993-2474, http://ods.gmu.edu. All academic
accommodations must be arranged through the ODS.
Tentative Schedule
| No |
Dates |
Topics |
Reading
Assignment |
Notes |
| 1 |
8/29 |
Introduction / Data
Mining Review
|
|
|
| 2 |
9/5 |
Text Mining I
|
|
|
| 3 |
9/12 |
Text Mining II
|
|
|
| 4 |
9/19 |
Text Mining III
|
|
|
| 5 |
9/26 |
Web Mining
|
|
|
| 6 |
10/3 |
Time Series I
|
|
|
| 7 |
10/10 |
Time Series II
|
|
|
| 8 |
10/17 |
Time Series III
|
|
|
| 9 |
10/24 |
TBA
|
|
|
| 10 |
10/31 |
Midterm |
|
|
| 11 |
11/7 |
Image I |
|
|
| 12 |
11/14 |
Image II |
|
|
| 13 |
11/21 |
Video / Audio |
|
|
| 14 |
11/28 |
Thanksgiving |
|
|
| 15 |
12/5 |
Project
Presentation |
|
|
| 16 |
12/12 |
Take-Home
Final
|
|
|
|