CS 6220: Data Mining Techniques

Instructor: Yizhou Sun

• Office hours: Wednesdays 3-4:40pm at 320 WVH

TA:

• Moonyoung (Moon) Kang
  • Email: yerihyo at gmail dot com
  • Office hours: Tuesdays 2-4pm at 472 WVH
• Qizhen Ruan
  • Email: ruan.qi@husky.neu.edu
  • Office hours: Mondays 4:30-6:30pm at 102 Main Lab WVH

Lecture times: Tue 6 - 9 PM
Lecture location: Behrakis Health Sciences Center 310

About the Course

This course introduces concepts, algorithms, and techniques of data mining on different types of datasets, including (1) matrix data, (2) set data, (3) sequence data, (4) time series, and (5) graph and network. The class project involves hands-on practice of mining useful knowledge from large data sets. The course is a graduate-level computer science course, which is also a good option for senior-level computer science undergraduate students interested in the field. Also, the course may attract students from other disciplines who need to understand, develop, and use data mining systems to analyze large amounts of data.

Class Schedule

Prerequisites

• CS 5800 or CS 7800, or consent of instructor
• The students are expected to have knowledge in data structures, algorithms, basic linear algebra, and basic statistics. You will also need to be familiar with at least one programming language, and have programming experiences.

Grading

• Homework: 40%
• Midterm exam: 25%
• Course project: 30%
• Participation: 5%

*Note: all the deadlines are 11:59PM (midnight) of the due dates.

 Textbook

Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber, and Jian Pei. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011

Recommended books for further reading:

1. "Data Mining" by Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, and Vipin Kumar (http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar/dmbook/index.php)
2. "Machine Learning" by Tom Mitchell (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html)
3. "Introduction to Machine Learning" by Ethem ALPAYDIN (http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~ethem/i2ml/)
4. "Pattern Classification" by Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, David G. Stork (http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471056693.html)
5. "The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction" by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman (http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/)
6. "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Christopher M. Bishop (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/prml/))

 Q & A

This term we will be using Piazza for class discussion. The system is highly catered to getting you help fast and efficiently from classmates, the TA, and myself. Rather than emailing questions to the teaching staff, I encourage you to post your questions on Piazza.

Tips: Answering other students' questions will increase your participation score.

Find our class page at: https://piazza.com/northeastern/fall2013/cs6220/home

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