Tentative COURSE TOPICS list and Schedule
1. Introduction and Overview (1 lecture)
2. Data Warehousing and OLAP: ( 1 lecture)
3. Data Pre-Processing, Cleaning, Reduction, Feature Extraction and Visualization: (3 lectures)
4. Classification : (4-5 lectures)
5. Mining Association Rules, Market Basket Analysis: ( 1 lecture)
6. Clustering/Segmentation: (5 lectures)
7. Prediction/Regression; Combining Multiple Models: ( 2 lectures)
8. Advanced Topics : (3 lectures)
Kernel methods; co-clustering etc.
9. Intro to Web Link Analysis : (1 lecture)
Google's Pagerank; Hubs and authorities.
Term Paper Presentations
10. Course wrap-up; outlook. : (1 lecture)