CIS664

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Spring 2007

Instructor

• Vasileios Megalooikonomou, email: vasilis AT temple DOT edu
• Office: 314 Wachman Hall, phone: 215-204-5774
• Office Hours: W 3-4pm, Th 11-12noon or by appointment

Class

• Meets: W 4:40-7:10pm, room TL403B

Course Syllabus

Announcements

• Please send me an email to sign up for a presentation by Feb. 8.
• Project proposals are due on Feb. 14.
• The midterm exam is on Mar. 21.
• The final exam is on May 9.

Projects

• Project ideas
• Software
• Grading Scheme

Other documents available electronically

• Lectures
• Slides
• Papers and presentations
• Guidelines for presentations
• Homework
• Other handouts
• Midterm exam study guide
• Final exam study guide

Other resources

• ACM SIGKDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) home page.
• ACM SIGMOD (Management of Data) home page.
• Software: Tools for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Machine Learning Database Repository at UCI
• Data Mining in Molecular Biology Databases
• IBM - QUEST Data Mining Project
• Free/public database software
• StatLib (statistical tools and datasets)
• Numerical Recipes in C (e-copy)
• Heikki Mannila's Papers at the University of Helsinki.
• Shinichi Morishita's Papers at the University of Tokyo. Also, his Recent Papers on genome mining.
• CACM, Nov., 1996 Special Issue on Data Mining.
• Univ. of Washington/Microsoft Summer, 1997 Institute on data mining.
• J. Gehrke. W.-Y. Loh, R. Ramamkrishnan, Tutorial on Classification from the 1999 KDD Conference. PDF.