CSC 566: Advanced Data Mining
Winter 2022

Instructor: Alexander Dekhtyar, dekhtyar@calpoly.edu, 14-212

Office Hours:

When		Who	Where
Tuesday	8:10am - 9:00am	Alex	14-212
Wednesday	8:10am - 10:00am	Alex	14-212
Thursday	8:10am - 9:00am	Alex	14-210

Additional appoinments: send email.

News and Notes

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Course Materials

Project and Assignments

Assignment 1: Course Topics Selection		Postscript	PDF		Due: January 6 (in class)	[January 4, 2022]
Assignment 2: Independent Study		Postscript	PDF		Due: March 1 (multiple due dates)	[January 19, 2022]
Assignment 3: Linear Classifiers		Postscript	PDF	Dataset (Kaggle)	Due: February 1	[January 25, 2022]
Assignment 4: SVMs		Postscript	PDF	Due: February 17	[February 3, 2022]

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1	Introduction to Machine Learning	Postscript	PDF	[January 11, 2022]
Lecture 2	Linear Regression	Postscript	PDF	[January 11, 2022]
Lecture 3	Gradient Descent	Postscript	PDF	[January 11, 2022]
Lecture 4	Linear Discriminant Analysis	Postscript	PDF	[January 11, 2022]
Lecture 5	Logistic Regression	Postscript	PDF	[January 11, 2022]
Lecture 6	Dimensionality Reduction: Principal Component Analysis	Postscript	PDF	[January 19, 2022]
Lecture 7	Dimensionality Reduction: Singlular Valued Decomposition and Latent Semantic Indexing	Postscript	PDF	[January 19, 2022]
Lecture 8	Classification: Perceptron	Postscript	PDF	[January 27, 2017]
Lecture 9	Classification: Support Vector Machines (Part 1)	Postscript	PDF	[January 27, 2017]
Lecture 10	Classification: Support Vector Machines: Dual Problem	Postscript	PDF	[February 3, 2022]
Lecture 11	Classification: Neural Nets	Postscript	PDF	[February 3, 2022]
Lecture 12	Clustering: Affinity Propagation	Postscript	PDF	[February 24, 2022]
Lecture 13	Graph Mining: Community Discovery	Postscript	PDF	[February 24, 2022]

Reading Material