Fundamental concepts and techniques of data mining, including data attributes, data visualization, data pre-processing, mining frequent patterns, association and correlation, classification methods, and cluster analysis. Advanced topics (time permitting) include outlier detection, stream mining, and social media data mining. CSC 577, a graduate-level course, requires additional readings and a course project.
| - Overview and Introduction | (notes, Chap. 1) |
| - Getting to Know Your Data | (Chap. 2) |
| - Data Preprocessing | (Chap. 3) |
| - Review of Linear Algebra, Statistics | (notes) |
| - Pattern Recognition Concepts | (notes) |
| - Mining Frequent Patterns | (Chap. 6) |
| - Association and Correlation | (Chap. 6) |
| - Advanced Pattern Mining | (Chap. 7) |
| - Classification | (Chap. 8/9*) |
| - Cluster Analysis | (Chap. 10/11*) |
| - Advanced Topics: UR BIG DATA Forum | early October |
| - Advanced Topics: Social Media Mining for Business and Economy | (Guest Lecture: Prof. Huaxia Rui of Simon School) Nov. 4 |
| - Advanced Topics: Bioinformatics | (Guest Lecture: Prof. Hulin Wu of URMC) |
| - Advanced Topics: Multimedia Mining | (Special Lecture: Prof. Jiebo Luo) |
| - Advanced Topics: Influence Mining | (Guest Lecture: Dr. Saurabh Kataria) Nov. 6 |
| - Trends and Research Frontiers | (Chap. 13, notes) |
* Midterm Exam: October 30 (October 28 review)
* Course Project presentation: 10 min. pp, December 4, 5*, 9, 11
Instructor: Prof. Jiebo Luo, CSB Rm 611, x65784
Lectures: TR 09:40-10:55, CSB 601
Office hours: after classes (15:15-16:00) or by appointment (use email).
TA: Quanzeng You, office hours: Wedn. 2-3pm, CSB VISTA Lab (6th floor)
Grading (total 100%)
Expectation for the final project - something "new"
* note: both the small project and the final project require programming
Required textbook
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3/E
Recommended reference book
Social Media Modeling and Computing
Steven C.H. Hoi, Jiebo Luo, Susanne Boll, Dong Xu, Rong Jin, Irwin King
Major conferences
KDD 2014
WSDM 2014
ACM MM 2013
ICDM 2014
ICWSM 2014
Sample datasets
Sample code