Instructor: Dr. Asim Karim
E-mail: akarim at lums
Office hours: 11.40 - 13.10 MW
Office: 429
Phone ext: 4429
Class coordinates: TR 17.50 - 19.10 in A-16/A-15
TA: M. Talal Ahmed (talal @ lums) and M. Fahiemullah (mfullah @ lums)
TA office hours: M 11.45 - 13.00 and F 15.00 - 16.30 in Labs (Talal), MW 16.30 -
17.45 in Lab 2 (Fahim)
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.
December 3
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.
December 10
Course project information posted on the Projects page. Submit your group
members to Talal by this Friday, meet any of us by next Tuesday, and submit the
one-page proposal by class time next Tuesday (Dec. 18).
December 19
Assignment 1 has been posted. It is due on Jan. 3. Please start working on it
soon.
Solution to quiz 1 posted.
January 1
Assignment 1 is now due by 11.59 PM on Jan. 6.
January 10
Please schedule your project progress meeting with me during next week. Bring a
write-up on the background and brief literature survey. You will be asked
regarding the approaches you plan to implement.
January 12
Solution to quiz 2 posted.
January 18
Assignment 2 has been posted. It is due on Jan. 31.
February 2
Solution to the midterm exam posted.
February 14
Assignment 3 has been posted. It is due on Feb. 21.
Your final project report is due on Saturday Feb. 23 by 11.59 PM.
February 17
Solution to quizzes 3 and 4 posted.
February 24
Solution to quiz 5 posted.
Some clustering examples have been posted on the Solutions page.
Pick up the handout for PageRank for Mr. Ishtiaq after 2 PM on Monday.