Instructor: 

Mohammed J. Zaki

Office: 

Lally 307

Phone: 

 x6340

Email: 

zaki.AT_.cs._rpi_.edu

Class Hours:

Darrin 239, MR 10:00-11:50am

Office Hours:

MR 12-1pm or by Appointment

MONDAYS

THURSDAYS

Aug 27 – DM Overview (chapter 1: secs 1.1-1.3)

Aug 30 – Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): Numeric & Categorical Data (secs 1.4-1.6; Chapter 2)

Sep 3 – NO CLASS (labor day)

Sep 6 – EDA: High Dimensional Data (Chapter 3: sec 3.1-3.5)

Sep 10 – EDA: High Dimensional Data (sec 3.6), and FPM:Itemset Mining (sec 5.1)

Sep 13 – EDA: Dimensionality Reduction (Chapter 4)

Sep 17 – Frequent Pattern Mining (FPM): Set Mining (chapter 5, sec 5.2-5.5)

Sep 20 – FPM: Summaries (Chapter 6)

Sep 24 – FPM: Sequence Mining (Chapter 7, sec 7.1-7.2)

Sep 27 – FPM: Sequence & Graph Mining (sec 7.3)

Oct 1 – FPM: Graph Mining (chapter 8)

Oct 4 – EXAM I

Oct 9 (Tuesday)– Link Analysis (chapter 9)

Oct 11 – Clustering(CLUS): Representative-based (chapter 10, 11)

Oct 15 – CLUS: Hierarchical (sec 11.3; chapter 12)

Oct 18 – CLUS: Density-based (chapter 13, 13.1-13.2)

Oct 22 – NO CLASS

Oct 25 – CLUS: Density-based (13.2-13.3), Subspace (sec 14.1)

Oct 29 – CLUS: Subspace Clustering (sec 14.2)

Nov 1 – EXAM II

Nov 5 – SVD (sec 4.2), Classification (CLAS): Partition-based (chap 15)

Nov 8 – CLAS: Partition-based (chapter 15)

Nov 12 – CLAS: Probabilistic (Chapter 16)

Nov 15 – CLAS: Linear Discriminant Analysis (Chapter 17), Support Vector Machines (Chapter 18, sec 18.1)

Nov 19 – CLAS: SVMs (secs 18.2-18.4)

Nov 22 – NO CLASS (Thanksgiving Break)

Nov 26 – CLAS: Kernel Methods (chaper 19, sec 19.1)

Nov 29 – CLAS: Rough Sets

Dec 3 – EXAM III

Dec 6 – Closing Remarks