CSE 572 DATA MINING
(January 18 - May 3, Spring 2005)
I hear, I forget; I see, I remember; I do, I understand. -
Proverb
We will hear, see and do in this class in the form of lectures,
invited talks, discussions, research paper reading assignment, a
project, and presentation, in addition to homework, quizzes, and
exam(s).
Your suggestions are most welcome. Please send email to hliu at asu.edu
OUTLINE
- Introduction
to Data Mining
- Data, data preparation, and data
Preprocessing (feature selection, discretization, sampling, instance
selection)
- A Brief Review of Probability and
Entropy
- Classification Methods (ensemble methods,
skewed data, cost-sensitive classification)
- Performance Evaluation (Measures,
Comparison)
- Clustering Methods (subspace clustering,
CLIQUE)
- Association Rules
- Some Applications (steganography and steganalysis, streaming data
extraction, gene selection)
ASSIGNMENTS (To be updated)
- There is a credit (10%) for class participation and discussion
(See
the home page)
- Assignments 1 and 2 are stated in the first set of slides
- Research paper reading
assignment, and selected presentations (All students are divided
into two batches: one month apart between the two; first batch will
include those students who have basic data mining training; the due
date for them is one month into the semester (2/17/05); and the 2nd
batch will have the reading assignment due two months into the semester
(3/17/05). All selected papers should be approved by the instructor.)
- Project proposal (If we have proposal presentations, there will
be 2 minutes each to share your ideas
about what you're going to do) (Project
Categories)
- Project progress report
- Project presentation
[please submit the URL links to TA], Schedule)
- Every student will have 15 minutes to present his project
including 2 minutes for Q/A
- 12-15 slides will be usually sufficient for this type of
presentation
- Project final report
and demo
More on Paper Reading Assignment,
Project and its Due Dates
EXAMS
LINKS
Prepared by Huan Liu
on Dec. 17, 2004
Last updated: Dec. 17, 2004