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Announcements Report deadline - November 19, 1999 I have received some complaints about the deadline for the project reports and surveys December 3rd. It is argued that a common deadline for the reports, while demos and presentation are spread, is unfair. I have revised the deadline as follows: I split the deadline into three deadlines: December 3rd (previous firm deadline), December 6th and December 8th (last day of class), and I spead the deadline in reverse chronological order of the demos or presentations. The result is the following: Report Deadline Presentation Data Project December 3rd December 13th Survey: Web Usage Mining December 3rd December 10th Survey: Web Usage Mining December 6th December 8th Demo: Awari Gane Database Mining December 6th December 8th Demo: Clustering phonemes, words and phrases December 6th December 8th Demo: Correlation of Drugs Used in Chronic Medical Conditions in Alberta Senior Citizens December 6th December 8th Demo: Multi-level Association Rules December 6th December 3rd Survey: Content-Based Image Indexing and Retrieval December 6th December 3rd Demo: Content-Based Image Querying December 6th December 6th Survey: KDD from unstructured and semistructured Data December 8th December 1st Demo: Walking the Data Cube December 8th December 1st Demo: Virtual Web Viewer December 8th December 1st Demo: Classification Predictor December 8th December 1st Demo: Pattern Discovery in Web Logs December 8th November 29th Demo: Numerosity Reduction Tool December 8th November 29th Demo: Classification Algorithms December 8th November 29th Demo: Multi-level Association Rules December 8th November 29th Demo: Association Rule test bed Projects - November 15, 1999 The schedule for the project demos and the survey presentations is on-line under "activities". Remember the due date for the reports is December 3rd. Demos are 15 minutes while survey presentations are 50 minutes. Assignment 1 - November 12, 1999 The grades for assignment 1 are on-line. Check the GradeBook. Members of a same group get the same grades. Midterm - November 9, 1999 The midterm grades are on-line. Check the GradeBook. Bonus points will be added later. New chapters - October 27, 1999 Chapters 7 and 8 of the textbook about classification and clustering are on line. Chapter 9 will not be on-line soon. We have covered Web Mining in chapter 9, while the textboox's chapter 9 will cover mining from complex data. Due date for Assignment2 - October 25, 1999 Students have asked to change the deadline for the second assignment. After general consensus, the due date for Assignment 2 has been changed to November 5th. ASSIGNMENT 2 - October 19, 1999 Assignment 2 is on-line. The due date is October 29th. Note that this assignment is NOT a group work. Workspaces - September 28, 1999 The entry "Class mates" in the main menu is now called "Workspaces". This is to eliminate some confusion. The slides of the student presentations are in the respective students' workspaces. Mailing List - September 28, 1999 A mailing list for cmput690 (cmput690@cs.ualberta.ca) has been set up for your convenience. There are 23 users registered in this mailing list. You can use this mailing list to communicate course related messages (questions, comments, etc.) ASSIGNMENT 1 - September 26, 1999 Assignment 1 is on-line. The due date is October 20th. Postscript Textbook - September 20, 1999 The authors provided me with postscript versions of the textbook chapters. I generated new pdf files and made the new pdf files as well as the postscript files available. Hopefully, you won't have problems printing anymore. Student workspaces - September 20, 1999 In the class-mates page, you can now create a personal workspace. In your workspace you can generate a page to describe yourself and present interesting web resources. Soon, you will be able to upload files to share, such as you presentation slides, your reports, etc. Slides for Chapter1 - September 15, 1999 The 62 slides for chapter1, Introduction to data mining, are now on-line in pdf format as well as in a browsable HTML format. Check the course material folders. Class survey - September 12, 1999 The class survey was put on-line in the class mates page. The page is protected. Since you do not have passwords yet, access as a guest with ID=guest and password=guest. Course Notes folders - September 11, 1999 The course notes page has a dynamic tree of folders. If you open the top folder, you will discover a folder for each chapter in the course. I just put in the folder for chapter 1 the course notes as well as the slides used for the first class. Recommended readings were also added in this folder. Slides for Course Organization - September 11, 1999 The slides presented during the first class about grading, schedule, projects etc. are on line on the home page and in course content page. Course Notes for Chapter 1 - September 10, 1999 The course notes for chapter 1 "Introduction to Data Mining" are on line in HTML format as well as PDF and Postscript. Check the course content page Course Textbook - August 27, 1999 I have received the permission from the authors and the publisher, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, to put the manuscript on reserve in our library. You will be advised when the manuscript will be available at the library. Course Textbook - August 26, 1999 The textbook is not published yet. You will not be able to find it in the bookstore until the year 2000 . The advantage is that you do not have to buy a book for this course this semester. Eventhough, I highly recommend the book when it will be published, as it is a great data mining reference book for learners and developers. I am currently seeking the permission from the authors, Dr. J. Han and M. Kamber, to put a draft of the book (not to be copied) on reserve in the library. First Class - August 25, 1999 The first class will be September 10th. There is nothing to prepare. Just come and meet the other class mates. We will briefly talk about what we will learn together this term and and you will get a brief introduction to KDD. [Home] [Announcements] [Calendar] [On-line Materials] [Activities] [Grading] [Glossary] [U-Chat Tool] [Web Links] [Student Resources] Last updated: November, 9th, 1999 [About this site and list of symbols]