Tentative Schedule for "Introduction to Large-Scale Data Mining". (Chapter Numbers refer to the class textbook: "Introduction to Data Mining" by P. Tan, M. Steinbach, V. Kumar, Addison Wesley, 2006.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aug 31 -- Course Information Sept 5 -- Introduction (Chapter 1) Sept 7 -- Introduction (Chapter 1) Sept 12 -- Data (Chapter 2) Sept 14 -- Data (Chapter 2) Sept 19 -- Exploring Data (Chapter 3) Sept 21 -- Exploring Data (Chapter 3) Sept 26 -- Exploring Data (Chapter 3) Sept 28 -- Classification (Chapter 4) Oct 3 -- Classification (Chapter 4) Oct 5 -- Classification (Chapter 4) Oct 10 -- Classification (Chapter 4) Oct 12 -- Clustering (Chapter 8) Oct 17 -- Midterm 1 Oct 19 -- Clustering (Chapter 8) Oct 24 -- Clustering (Chapter 8) Oct 26 -- Clustering (Chapter 8) Oct 31 -- Clustering (Chapter 8) Nov 2 -- Clustering (Chapter 8) Nov 7 -- Project Discussion Nov 9 -- Association Analysis (Chapter 6) Nov 14 -- Association Analysis (Chapter 6) Nov 16 -- Association Analysis (Chapter 6) Nov 21 -- Project Discussion Nov 28 -- Association Analysis (Chapter 6) Nov 30 -- Visualization Demo Dec 5 -- Midterm 2 Dec 7 -- Further topics