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