CS 584 – Fall 2015

Data Mining  – CRN: 78055 – CS 584 - 001

Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CS 310 and STAT 344.

Instructor:  Prof. Harry Wechsler wechsler@gmu.edu

Email correspondence: from / to GMU accounts with subject: CS 584

Course Description Concepts and techniques in data mining and multidisciplinary applications. Topics include databases; data cleaning and transformation; concept description; association and correlation rules; data classification and predictive modeling; performance analysis and scalability; data mining in advanced database systems, including text, audio, and images; and emerging themes and future challenges.

Goals: Critical Thinking; Model Selection and Predictive Analytics Using Cross-Validation; Meaningful (size and scope) Data Mining Applications (to find novel and useful patterns); Experimental Design, Metrics and Performance Evaluation; Theory vs. Practice.

Time, Day, and Venue:  W 7:20 pm – 10:00 pm

 – Robinson Hall B203

Office Hours: W 6:00 – 7:00 pm or by appointment, ENGR 4448.

http://registrar.gmu.edu/calendars/fall-2015/

First day of classes: W, September 2, 2015

No class on W, November 25, 2015 (Thanksgiving recess)

Last day of classes: W, December 9, 2015

http://registrar.gmu.edu/calendars/fall-2015/exams/

Final Exam: W, December 16, 2015, 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

Required Textbook: P. N. Tan, M. Steinbach, and V. Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining, Addison Wesley, 2006 (including slides).  http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar/dmbook/index.php

Complementary Textbook 1: J. Han and M. Kamber, Data Mining (3rd Ed.) Morgan Kaufmann, 2011 (including slides). http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~hanj/bk3/bk3_slidesindex.htm

Complementary Textbook 2: I. H. Witten, E. Frank, and M. A. Hall, Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (3rd ed.), Morgan Kaufmann, 2011 (including slides). http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/book.html

Complementary Textbook 3: T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, and J. Friedman, The Elements of Statistical Learning (2nd ed.), Springer, 2009, (including slides). http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

Complementary Textbook 4: A. Rajaraman, J. Leskovec, and J. D. Ullman, Mining of Massive Datasets (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2014.  http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds/book.pdf

Software and Data:

UCI Machine Learning Repository is a repository of databases and data generators that are used by the machine learning community for the empirical analysis of machine learning algorithms. http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/ 

UCI Knowledge Discovery in Databases Archive is an online repository of large data sets which encompasses a wide variety of data types, analysis tasks, and application area. http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/

Kaggle is the home of data science and data mining competitions. http://www.kaggle.com/

Resources: Software and Data.  http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar/dmbook/resources.htm

WEKA http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/

MALLET is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text. http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/

SVM light and LibSVM are two popular implementations of various support vector machines (SVM) algorithms. http://svmlight.joachims.org/ and http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/

R – Programming language for statistical computing and graphics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29 and http://www.r-project.org/

MATLAB and Toolboxes – The Language of Technical . http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/

CLOSED BOOK EXAMINATIONS

Grading Composition (100 points)

·         Homework – 25 % // late homework not accepted //

·         Midterm (Tentative) W, October 14, 2015 20 %

·         Team Term Projects  and FINAL Review December 2, 2015

and December 9, 2015 25 %

·         (Cumulative) Final December 16, 2015 - 30 %

Grading Scale

http://www.fcps.edu/southcountyhs/sservices/gradescale.html

Computing Resources

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