CSC 466: Knowledge Discovery From Data
Spring 2018

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

Office Hours:
When
Who Where
Tuesday 10:10am - 11:00am Alex 14-210
Wednsday 10:10am - 12:00pm Alex 14-210
Thursday 10:10am - 11:00am Alex 14-210

Additional appoinments: send email.

Final Exam Date: Thursday, June 14, 2018, 4:10 - 7:00pm

(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
Jupyter Hub Login Page


Labs

Lab 1 Due: April 3 (Tuesday) Association Rules Postscript PDF Data [April 5, 2018]
Lab 2 Due: May 2 (Tuesday) Supervised Learning (Classification) Postscript PDF Data [April 19, 2018]
Lab 2-1 Due: May 2 (Tuesday) Supervised Learning (Classification) Postscript PDF Data [May 3, 2018]
Lab 3 Due: May 16 Unsupervised Learning Postscript PDF Data [May 3, 2018]
Lab 4 Due: May 24 Information Retrieval/Text Mining Postscript PDF Data [May 17, 2018]
Lab 5 Due: June 2 Link Analysis Postscript PDF Data [May 24, 2018]
Lab 6 Due: June 9 Collaborative Filtering Postscript PDF Data [May 31, 2018]


Projects

Analytical Project Due:June 14, 2018 Multiple Datasets Postscript PDF [May 8, 2018]
Ethics and KDD Assignment Due:June 14, 2018 Science Fiction Dystopia Story Postscript PDF [May 29, 2018]

Lab Data

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1 April 3 What is KDD? Postscript PDF [March 31, 2009]
Lecture 2 April 5 Association Rules Mining: Apriori Postscript PDF [April 12, 2009]
Lecture 3 April 5 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