Schedule
Book refers to: Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, and Jian Pei, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd edition.
Book refers to: Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, and Jian Pei, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd edition.
Week 1 Oct. 5:
Introduction and Math Review [slides]
Further reading:
Book Chapter 1, 2, 3
Review of probability from a course by David Blei from Princeton U.
Machine Learning Math Essentials by Jeff Howbert from Washington U.
Week 1 Oct. 7:
Linear Regression [slides]
Further Reading
Further Reading
Week 2 Oct. 14:
Decision Tree; Regression Tree; Random Forest [slides]
Further Reading
Decision Tree: Book Chapter 8.1, 8.2
Regression Tree: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/350-2006/lecture-10.pdf
Random Forest: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~breiman/RandomForests/cc_home.htm
Week 3 Oct. 19:
SVM [slides]
Further Reading
Notes on SVM by Andrew Ng: http://cs229.stanford.edu/notes2020fall/notes2020fall/cs229-notes3.pdf
Week 3 Oct. 21:
Neural Networks [slides]
HW2 out
Week 4 Oct. 26:
Similarity measure and KNN [slides]
Further Reading
Week 4 Oct. 28:
Classification Evaluation; Other Practical Issues [slides]
HW3 out
Further Reading
Book Chapter 8.5
Week 5 Nov. 2:
Clustering Basics: K-means; Hierarchical Clustering; DBSCAN [slides]
Further Reading
Book Chapter 10.1-10.4
Week 5 Nov. 4:
Mixture Models [slides]
Week 6 Nov. 9:
Clustering Evaluation; Other Practical Issues [slides]
HW4 out
Further Reading
Book Chapter 10.6, 2.4
Week 6 Nov. 11:
No Class (Veterans Day )
Week 7 Nov. 16:
Mid-term Exam (In-Class)
Week 7 Nov. 18:
Frequent Pattern Mining and Association Rules I [slides]
Further Reading
Book Chapter 6
Week 8 Nov. 23:
Frequent Pattern Mining and Association Rules II [slides as above]
HW5 out
Further Reading
Book Chapter 6
Week 8 Nov. 25:
Sequential Pattern Mining [slides]
Further Reading
Week 9 Nov. 30:
DTW [slides]
Further Reading
Week 9 Dec. 2:
Naïve Bayes for Text [slides]
HW6 out
Week 10 Dec. 7:
Topic Model [slides]
Further Reading
pLSA tutorial: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.3900.pdf
topic modeling tutorial: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/kdd-tutorial.pdf
Week 10 Dec. 9:
Final Review
Week 11 Dec. 16:
Final Exam (8AM-10AM PT)