CS 331/295: Data Mining

Spring 2009

Instructor

Xindong Wu
xwu@cs.uvm.edu

Prerequisites

One-semester programming in Java.
One-semester statistics/probability: STAT 153.

Textbook

• Xindong Wu and Vipin Kumar (Eds), The Top Ten Algorithms in Data Mining, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4200-8964-6.

Additional References

• Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2006, ISBN 1-55860-901-6.
• Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, and Vipin Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Addison Wesley, 2006, ISBN: 0-321-32136-7.
• Ian Witten and Eibe Frank, Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000, ISBN: 1-55860-552-5.
• Xindong Wu, Knowledge Acquisition from Databases, Ablex Publishing Corp., U.S.A., 1995. ISBN 1-56750-206-7 (cloth cover); ISBN 1-56750-205-9 (paper cover).

Course Description

Data mining is a broad area that integrates techniques from several fields including machine learning, statistics, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and database systems, for the analysis of large volumes of data. This course gives a wide exposition of these techniques and their software tools. Topics include: association analysis, classification, clustering, numeric prediction, pattern discovery in sequential data, and Bayesian networks.

Advanced Topics for PhD Comprehensive Exams

• Top 10 Data Mining Algorithms and 18 Candidates
• 10 Challenging Problems in Data Mining

Grading Policy (in Spring '09)

Two Assignments: C4.5 due Feb. 4 and Weka due on Feb. 18	10%
Mid-Term Exam (close-book and close-notes): Monday, March 16	25%
Paper Presentations	15%
Essay	20%
Final Exam (close-book and close-notes): 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Thursday May 7; VOTEY 367	30%

Course Syllabus by Week

Useful Links

• Data Mining Research Links
• Master of Science in Data Mining at CCSU
• CS 349: Data Mining, Search, and the World Wide Web at Stanford University
• Machine Learning Software in Java at the University of Waikato
• UCI Machine Learning Database Repository at University of California, Irvine
• Jobs related to Data Mining at KDNuggets
• Other URL's for Data Mining