CSE012/CS059 – Data Mining

Fall 2014

 

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Class Hours: Tuesday 12:00-15:00, Room Ι1.
Instructor: Panayiotis Tsaparas (tsap _at_ cs.uoi.gr), Office
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Past Courses: Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2013

Grades: The grade for the course will be determined by the assignments (75%) and the project (25%). There will be three assignments, each one accounting for 25% of the final grade. There will be no final exam either on January or September exam period. You can improve your grade in September by updating and improving the project.

 

Announcements

·         Friday January 16. Extension. Since it is important to think carefully about your project proposal you can turn it in within the weekend.

·         Saturday January 10. Extension. The deadline for Assignment 3 is extended for January 16, together with the first phase of the project. There will be no more extensions for the Assignment, or the project.

·         Tuesday December 23. Assignment 3 and Project. The third Assignment and the Project are now available on the Homework page.

·         Monday December 15. Extension. The deadline for Assignment 2 is extended for December 18, 13:00.

·         Friday November 28. Assignment 2. The second Assignment is now available on the Assignments page.

·         Wednesday November 19. Clarifications for Assignment 1b.

o   For Question 1, you can assume that r and c are given to you as part of the input.

o   For Question 2, do not turn in output that is too large. It is better if you increase the threshold. You can include your observations about the size of the output in your report.

o   For Question 3, you can normalize the vectors as described in Question 4. Also, you can compute the weighted average grade of the K most similar students using the similarity to the original student. Explain your choices in your report.

o   In general, all your choices and your observations should be clearly described in your report.

·         Saturday November 14. File with course names for the last assignment. I did not manage to make the txt file display Greek characters, so here is an excel file with the course names.

·         Wednesday November 12. Extra class. Tomorrow, Thursday November 13, there will be an extra class at 5:00-8:00 pm.

·         Sunday November 9: Assignment 1, part 2: The second part of Assignment 1 is now available on the Assignments page.

·         Friday October 24: Next week’s lecture: Next week’s lecture will be on Thursday 30/10, 5:00-8:00 pm. The first part of Assignment 1 should be handed at the beginning of the lecture.

·         Friday October 17: Assignment 1, part 1: The first part of Assignment 1 is now available on the Assignments page.

·         Monday October 6: Change of Lecture time: The lecture of this Tuesday is moved to 13:00-16:00