CSCI-4390/6390 Data Mining

Fall 2006

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Announcements

• Nov 30: Final Project Report guidelines have been posted.
• Nov 17: Solutions to Exam II are available.
• Nov 7: Solutions to HW3 are available.
• Oct 29: HW3 has been posted here. Due date is 5th Nov, before midnight. Simply email your program/answers in a zip/tar file to Suzanne. Remember that HWs are individual assignments. You may not collaborate with anyone!
• Oct 17: The guidelines for the final data mining project are now posted. Please start selecting the projects immediately.
• Oct 17: There will be bonus points for those attending at least one talk during the Computer Science Day, and writing a brief description of its relation to data mining. You must see me during/after the talks so I know who showed up.
• Oct 5: Exam I Solution has been posted.
• Oct 3: Exam I syllabus was covered in class on Oct 2. It covers all material up to the Sep 28th Class.
• Oct 3: The solutions to HW1 and HW2 have been posted. In the HW1 directory, the perl script d-dim.pl handles both qestion 1 and 2 (N is the number of points, d is the dimensions, e is the epsilon, and p is the value for the Lp distance in Q2). The script monte-carlo.pl handles Q3.
• Sep 25: HW2 is now posted here . Due before class on 2nd Oct. Either email to the TA or hand it in person in class.
• Sep 19: The latex scribing style file has been updated to include the "editedby" field as well. This will allow the editing group to add their names as well.
• Sep 18: HW1 has been posted here. Due date is 25th Sept, before midnight. Simply email your program/answers in a zip/tar file to Suzanne. Remember that HWs are individual assignments. You may not collaborate with anyone!
• Sep 14: Take a look at the notes for Lecture 3 (Sep 7) scribed by Group 2 and edited by Group 13. This is an excellent example of how notes should be transcribed!
• Sep 7: Groups are now formed. Check the link above.
• Sep 7: Scribing/Editing schedule has been posted below. In general, starting from today's class, we will follow the following procedure. 1) the group responsible for scribing (the first in the pair), will scribe the lectures and send it to the editing group (the second in the pair), before midnight, the day before the next class. Also CC the TA with the latex files. 2) the editing group will grade the notes in terms of comprehensibility, and will improve it (you must document how/what you changed), and send the notes to the TA (and CC to me) before midnight of the next class. For example, for Sep 7, Group2 is the scribing group and Group13 is the editing group. Group2 must send the notes to Group13 (and the TA) before midnight Sep 10, and Group12 must grade, correct, and send the notes to the TA before midnight Sep 13. I'll post the notes online on this site on Sep 14. This way all notes will be up one week after class. See a detailed/updated scribing/editing policy on the syllabus page. The Aug 31 groups should follow the same schedule as the Sep 7 groups.
• Aug 28: Start forming groups of 2 students. Email your partner information to Suzanne. If you do not choose anyone, she will assign you to a random group.

• Aug 28: See the scribing instructions on the syllabus page. All the notes must be in latex. Check out the scribe.sty style file, as well as an example notes file scribe_sample.tex which you may use as a template for the notes. You may copy both files in the same directory, and run "pdflatex scribe_sample.tex" to generate the pdf file scribe_sample.pdf. If you are not familiar with latex, search google for a good tutorial.

Class Topics

Scribing/Editing Schedule