Data Mining

Location:

UCSC Silicon Valley Center at NASA (Mountain View)

UCSC Main campus: Room , Baskin Engineering Room 156

Time: 6pm-9:30pm Wednesday 

Instructors: Yi Zhang  (yiz  + 245 @ soe.ucsc.edu)

Ram Akella (akella (at) soe.ucsc.edu)

Office hours at NASA: 5:15-5:45pm Wednesday (at the instructors’ office)

Office hour at UCSC: 4pm Tuesday (E2-565)

TAs: Anita KrishnaKumar (anita (at) soe.ucsc.edu)

Jyotsna Gangwar (jyotsna (at) soe.ucsc.edu)

TA hour at SVC: 5:15-5:45pm Wednesday  (SVC 2095)

WebCT (for homework submission)

The course is lecture based. Students are expected to read some book chapters and research papers. Students will be evaluated based on homework, final exam, and course project. 

Required Textbook:

Tan, Steinbach, Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining, Addison Wesley./Pearson, 2006 Errata

Course Reader (TBA from UCSC staff)

Other books:

David Hand, “Principal of Data Mining”, MIT Press

Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber  "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques", Morgan Kaufmann.

Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman , "The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction".

Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank,, Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition, Morgan Kaufmann

Soumen Chakrabarti, "Mining the Web: Statistical Analysis of Hypertext and Semi-Structured Data", Morgan Kaufmann.

Modeling the Internet and the Web, Baldi, Frasconi, Wiley

Grading: Grades will be based on:

 

Item

Due Date

Value

Assignments

 

25%

Presentation and class participation

 

5%

Course project

 

30%

Middle. Exam

 

20%

Final Exam

 

20%

 

 

FAQ:

1. How to access course material from outside UCSC intranet?