ISM245: Data Mining - Spring 2009

Final Exam is available now! (download)

 

Location

UCSC Main campus: Room 156, BE

UCSC SVC at NASA: Room 2077, Building 19

Online video lecture recordings

 

Time

6:00-9:30pm, Monday  

 

Instructor

Kai Yu

E-mail: kyu@soe.ucsc.edu

Telephone: 408-931-5561

Office hours: 4:00-6:00pm, Tuesday

 

TA

Chunye Wang, cwang@soe.ucsc.edu

RA

Bin An, bxan@ucsc.edu

TA hours: 4:30-6:00pm Tuesday by appointment, Room 2003 SVC, or by E-mail

 

Textbook

-IDM: Tan, Steinback, Kumar, "Introduction to Data Mining", Addison Wesley/Pearson, 2006 (before Midterm).

-DMC: Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques", Morgan Kaufmann (aftere Midterm).

 

Recommended books

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

- David Hand, "Principal of Data Mining", MIT PRess.

 

Grading

 

Item

Due Date

Value

Assignments

 

25%

Presentation and class participation

 

5%

Course project

 

25%

Middle Exam

 

20%

Final Exam

 

25%