The following schedule is tentative and subject to change.

Date Topic Readings Assignments & Project
Aug 21 (Mon) Virtual Class: Introduction & Course Overview

Aug 23 (Wed) Virtual Class: Background & Basics (Probability) PDM Chapter 4.1-4.3, Appendix Assignment 1 out
Aug 25 (Fri) Virtual Class: Background & Basics (Probability, linear algebra) PDM Chapter 4.7
Aug 28 (Mon) Background & Basics (Sampling, statistical inference) PDM Chapter 4.4-4.5
Aug 30 (Wed) Background & Basics (Statistical inference) PDM Chapter 4.4-4.5
Sep 1 (Fri) Background & Basics (Hypothesis testing) PDM Chapter 4.6 Assignment 1 due (Sunday Sep 3, 11:59pm)
Sep 4 (Mon) No class (Labor day)
Sep 6 (Wed) Elements of Data Mining Algorithm Project guideline out
Sep 8 (Fri) Data Exploration and Visualization PDM Chapter 3
Sep 11 (Mon) Predictive Modeling Overview PDM Chapter 6.1-6.3, 10.1-10.2
Sep 13 (Wed) Predictive Modeling: Naive Bayes PDM Chapter 10.8
Sep 15 (Fri) Predictive Modeling: Decision trees PDM Chapter 5.2, 10.5 Assignment 2 out
Sep 18 (Mon) Predictive Modeling: Decision trees, nearest neighbor PDM Chapter 10.3, 10.6, 11.4
Sep 20 (Wed) Predictive Modeling: Logistic regression
Sep 22 (Fri) Predictive Modeling: Logistic regression, SVM Project proposal due (Friday Sep 22, 11:59pm)
Sep 25 (Mon) Predictive Modeling: SVM
Sep 27 (Wed) Predictive Modeling: Search & Optimization PDM Chapter 8.1-8.3
Sep 29 (Fri) Predictive Modeling: Search & Optimization Assignment 2 due (Friday Sep 29, 11:59pm)
Oct 2 (Mon) Predictive Modeling: Search & Optimization Assignment 3 out
Oct 4 (Wed) Predictive Modeling: Neural network
Oct 6 (Fri) Predictive Modeling: Neural network
Oct 9 (Mon) No class (October break)
Oct 11 (Wed) Predictive Modeling: Evaluation PDM Chapter 10.10
Oct 13 (Fri) No class (instructor travel) Project midterm report due (Friday Oct 13, 11:59pm)
Oct 16 (Mon) Predictive Modeling: Ensembles (Bagging)
Oct 18 (Wed) No class (midterm exam, Wednesday Oct 18, 8-10pm, BHEE 170) Assignment 3 due (Thursday Oct 19, 11:59pm)
Oct 20 (Fri) Predictive Modeling: Ensembles (Random Forest)
Oct 23 (Mon) Predictive Modeling: Ensembles (Boosting) Assignment 4 out
Oct 25 (Wed) Predictive Modeling: Ensembles (Boosting)
Oct 27 (Fri) Descriptive Modeling Overview
Oct 30 (Mon) Descriptive Modeling: K-means PDM Chapter 9.3-9.4
Nov 1 (Wed) Descriptive Modeling: Hierarchical clustering PDM Chapter 9.5
Nov 3 (Fri) Descriptive Modeling: GMM PDM Chapter 9.2, 9.6
Nov 6 (Mon) No class (instructor travel) Assignment 4 due (Monday Nov 6, 11:59pm)
Nov 8 (Wed) No class (instructor travel)
Nov 10 (Fri) No class (instructor travel)
Nov 13 (Mon) Descriptive Modeling: GMM & Expectation maximization PDM Chapter 9.2, 9.6 Assignment 5 out
Nov 15 (Wed) Descriptive Modeling: Evaluation
Nov 17 (Fri) Pattern Mining PDM Chapter 11
Nov 20 (Mon) Pattern Mining PDM Chapter 11
Nov 22 (Wed) No class (Thanksgiving)
Nov 24 (Fri) No class (Thanksgiving)
Nov 27 (Mon) Data Mining: Recent topics
Nov 29 (Wed) Data Mining: Recent topics Assignment 5 due (Wed Nov 29, 11:59pm)
Dec 1 (Fri) No class (Project day)
Dec 4 (Mon) Final project presentation (Session 1)
Dec 6 (Wed) Final project presentation (Session 2)
Dec 8 (Fri) Final project presentation (Session 3) Project final report due (Sunday Dec 10 11:59pm)