Course Syllabus for 2009

General Information

Graduate course
Term: Spring 2009
Date and Time: Tuesday 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: E6- A203
Number of credits: 3 credits


Instructor: Chia-Hui Chang
Office: E6-B302
Phone: 35302
E-mail: chia at csie dot ncu dot edu dot tw
Office Hours: Monday 3:00 - 4:50 or by appointment.

Course Goals

• Introducing students to the basic concepts and techniques of data mining.
  
• Learning by doing it, i.e. developing skills of using DM algorithms for knowledge discovery.
  
• To gain experience of doing independent study and research.

Course Topics

• Preliminary (2~3weeks)
  
• Predictive data mining (4 weeks)
  
• Association rule mining (3 weeks)
  
• Cluster analysis (3 weeks)
  
• Sequence labling (2 weeks)
• Learning to rank (2 weeks)
  

Evaluations

• Two~Three Assignments: 40%
• Project: 30%
• Presence: 10%
• Exam: 20%

Teaching Assistant

• Stanley Fan
  
• Email:
  
• Office Hour: