CSC 466: Knowledge Discovery From Data
Fall 2018

Instructor: Alexander Dekhtyar, dekhtyar@csc.calpoly.edu, 14-210

Office Hours:
When
Who Where
Monday 10:10am - 11:00am Alex 14-210
Monday 1:10pm - 2:00pm Alex 14-210
Wednsday 10:10am - 11:00pm Alex 14-210
Wednesday 2:10pm - 3:00pm Alex 14-210

Additional appoinments: send email.

Final Exam Date: Monday, December 10, 2018, 10:10 - 1:00pm

(note: there is no final exam, but we may use the time for course-related activities)


News and Notes

Old News and Notes

Course Materials

Syllabus Postscript PDF
Github Id Survey Survey
Jupyter Hub Login Page Log in with Gitgub Id
Spring 2018 Exam files Task1.ipynb, data1.csv Task2.ipynb, data5.csv Task3.ipynb, data8.csv
Spring 2018 Exam Solutions Task1-solution.ipynb Task2-solution.ipynb Task3-solution.ipynb


Labs

Lab 1 Due: October 1 (Monday) Association Rules Postscript PDF Data [September 24, 2018]
Lab 2 Due: October 12 (Friday) Supervised Learning (Classification) Postscript PDF Data [October 3, 2018]
Lab 3 Due: OCtober 22 (Monday) Supervised Learning (Classification) Postscript PDF Data [OCtober 12, 2018]
Lab 4 Due: November 2 Unsupervised Learning Postscript PDF Data [October 24, 2018]
Lab 5 Due: November 14 Information Retrieval/Text Mining Postscript PDF Data [November 2, 2018]
Lab 6 Due: November 28 Collaborative Filtering Postscript PDF Data [November 16, 2018]
Lab 7 Due: December 7 Link Analysis Postscript PDF Data [November 28, 2018]


Projects

Analytical Project Due: November 9/December 10 2018 Multiple Datasets Postscript PDF [November 2, 2018]

Lab Data

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1 What is KDD? Postscript PDF [March 31, 2009]
Lecture 2 Association Rules Mining: Apriori Postscript PDF [April 12, 2009]
Lecture 3 Association Rules Mining: Apriori examples Postscript PDF [April 14, 2009]
Lecture 4 Classification. Decision Trees Postscript PDF [April 20, 2009]
Lecture 5 Classification: C4.5. example Postscript PDF [April 22, 2009]
Lecture 6 Classification: Beyond C4.5. Postscript PDF [April 25, 2009]
Lecture 7 Clustering: K-means Postscript PDF [April 29, 2009]
Lecture 8 Distance Measures Postscript PDF [April 29, 2009]
Lecture 9 Clustering: Hierarchical Postscript PDF [May 7, 2009]
Lecture 10 Collaborative Filtering: Intro Postscript PDF [May 14, 2009]
Lecture 11 Collaborative Filtering: Evaluation Postscript PDF [November 1, 2010]
Lecture 12 Information Retrieval: measures, models Postscript PDF [May 20, 2009]
Lecture 13 Information retrieval: extending VSM Postscript PDF [May 25, 2009]
Lecture 14 Social Network/Graph Mining Postscript PDF [November 10, 2010]
Lecture 15 PageRank:The Algorithm Postscript PDF [May 28, 2009]
Lecture 16 PageRank: The Math Postscript PDF [June 1, 2009]
Lecture 17 Community Discovery Postscript PDF [November 10, 2010]
Lecture 17 Naive Bayes Postscript PDF [June 3, 2009]


April 3, 2018, dekhtyar at csc.calpoly.edu