Instructor: Dr. Asim Karim
E-mail: akarim at lums
Office hours: 11.30 - 13.10 MW
Office: 429
Phone ext: 4429
Class coordinates: TR 9.40 - 10.55 in SC-3
TA: Jamal Abdul Nasir (jamaln@lums.edu.pk)
TA office hours: 15.00 to 16.15 TR in Lab 2
Data mining or the discovery of knowledge in large datasets has created a lot of interest in the database and data engineering communities in recent years. The tremendous increase in the generation and collection of data has highlighted the urgent need for systems that can extract useful and actionable knowledge from large datasets. This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the data mining process; build theoretical and conceptual foundations of key data mining tasks such as association rule mining and clustering; discuss analysis and implementation of algorithms; and introduce major research sub-areas such as text and web mining. Students will get hands on experience through the implementation of algorithms and use of software tools in exercises. Selected research papers will also be discussed in class to supplement the text book material. For details, please see the course outline.
September 1
Welcome to the course. Regularly check this page for announcements and updates.
Check the resource page for web links on data mining. Start thinking about a
project for the course.
September 6
Course project handout has been posted on the assignments page. Please read it. The
first deadline is Sep. 11.
September 14
Quiz 1 solution posted.
September 16
Assignment-1 posted. Due on 24th September at 11:59 PM.
September 29
Quiz 2 solution posted.
October 10
Quiz 3 solution posted.
Assignment 2 posted.
October 17
FP-growth example added on handouts page.
October 21
Midterm exam solution posted on Solution page.
October 22
Change in TA office hours.
October 31
Solution to quiz 4 posted.
November 3
Assignment 3 posted.
November 13
Solution to quiz 5 posted.