Computer Science 4412/9555
CS4412A/9555A, Fall 2011
Data Mining and Its Applications
(Senior undergraduate and graduate course)
... Constantly Under Construction, check often.
Instructor
Dr. Charles Ling, Professor
Office Hours: Wed 11:30 am - 1:30 pm, or by appointment.
Office: Middlesex College 28C.
The best contact method: E-mail: cling@csd.uwo.ca
TA: Da Kuang (dkuang@uwo.ca). Office hour: Friday 2-3 pm.
On the round table outside Middlesex College 28C.
Course related materials (updating frequently):
Tentative schedule (subject to change)
- Week 1:
Course Outline,
Chapter 1
Extra materials: KDnuggets,
Heritage Provider Network Health Prize ($3M),
ACM SIGKDD
- Week 2:
Chapter 2 and
Chapter 3.
Please download and try
WEKA 3.6
(Read Chapters 10-13 for more info on WEKA)
- Week 3:
Chapter 4.1-4.3
Assignment 1 is ready
- Week 4:
Chapter 6.1,
Chapter 5.1-5.5
Extra materials:
PhD thsis on Oblique Trees,
Using Model Trees for regression
- Week 5:
Chapter 4.4, 5.5, 4.5
Extra materials:
Poll on data mining methods used by used (2007), and
Poll on data mining in
industries/fields (2010)
Assignment 1 is due on 10/11 (Email your assignment (Word, PDF, PS) to
cs4412.uwo@gmail.com)
Assignment 2 is ready
- Week 6:
Chapters 4.6-4.8, 8.1-8.2
- Week 7:
Application 1: CRM (Customer Relationship Management):
a review,
direct marketing,
action mining
Extra reading:
Developing an Effective Customer Loyalty Program,
Customer lifetime value research in marketing
Assignment 2 is due on 10/25 (Email your assignment (Word, PDF, PS) to
cs4412.uwo@gmail.com)
Assignment 3 is ready
- Week 8: Note: This week's class is canceled. Here is
Midterm reveiw
- Week 9:
Application 2: Cost-sensitive data mining
A review paper,
Predicting Software Escalations with Maximum ROI
Assignment 3 is due on 11/8 (Email your assignment (Word, PDF, PS) to
cs4412.uwo@gmail.com)
- Week 10:
In-class midterm on 11/15
Project: the project is open-ended. It can be a survey, some data-mining
task with
data collection and mining, or some applications with data mining
as a major component.
You need to submit a written report (5-15 pages), together with data
or codes if any.
Email your project (one compressed file) to cs4412.uwo@gmail.com.
The due date is Dec 6.
Here are some project ideas
- Week 11:
Application 3: Text Mining and Web Mining (guest lectures)
- Week 12:
Application 4: Data Mining for Financial Industries and donation campaign (guest lectures)
- Week 13: (cancelled) Parts from Chapters 7 and 8
Project is due on 12/7 midnight, email to cs4412.uwo@gmail.com.