| Date | Topic | Readings | Assignments & Project |
| Aug 23 | Introduction & Course Overview |
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| Aug 25 | Background & Basics (Probability) | PDM Chapter 4.1-4.3, Appendix | Assignment 1 out |
| Aug 30 | Background & Basics (Linear algebra, sampling) | PDM Chapter 4.7 | |
| Sep 1 | Background & Basics (Statistical inference, hypothesis testing) | PDM Chapter 4.4-4.6 | Assignment 1 due (Sunday Sep 5, 11:59pm) |
| Sep 6 | No class (Labor Day) | ||
| Sep 8 | Elements of Data Mining Algorithm | Project guideline out | |
| Sep 13 | Data Exploration and Visualization | PDM Chapter 3 | |
| Sep 15 | Predictive Modeling Overview | PDM Chapter 6.1-6.3, 10.1-10.2 | |
| Sep 20 | Predictive Modeling: Naive Bayes | PDM Chapter 10.8 | |
| Sep 22 | Predictive Modeling: Decision trees | PDM Chapter 5.2, 10.5 | Project proposal due (Sunday Sep 26 11:59pm) |
| Sep 27 | Predictive Modeling: Nearest neighbor | PDM Chapter 10.3, 10.6 | Assignment 2 out |
| Sep 29 | Predictive Modeling: Logistic regression | PDM Chapter 10.7, 11.3 | |
| Oct 4 | Predictive Modeling: SVM | Assignment 2 due (Tuesday Oct 5, 11:59pm) | |
| Oct 6 | Predictive Modeling: Search & Optimization 1 | PDM Chapter 8.1-8.3 | Assignment 3 out |
| Oct 11 | No class (October break) | ||
| Oct 13 | Predictive Modeling: Search & Optimization 2 | ||
| Oct 18 | Predictive Modeling: Neural network | PDM Chapter 11.4 | |
| Oct 20 | Predictive Modeling: Evaluation | PDM Chapter 10.10 | Assignment 3 due (Sunday Oct 24 11:59pm) |
| Oct 25 | No class (Online midterm exam) | ||
| Oct 27 | Predictive Modeling: Wrap-up | Project midterm report due (Sunday Oct 31 11:59pm) | |
| Nov 1 | Predictive Modeling: Ensembles (Bagging & Boosting) | Assignment 4 out | |
| Nov 3 | Predictive Modeling: Ensembles (Boosting & Random forest) | ||
| Nov 8 | Descriptive Modeling Overview | ||
| Nov 10 | Descriptive Modeling: K-means & Hierarchical clustering | PDM Chapter 9.3-9.5 | Assignment 4 due (Sunday Nov 14 11:59pm) |
| Nov 15 | Descriptive Modeling: GMM & Expectation maximization | PDM Chapter 9.2, 9.6 | Assignment 5 out |
| Nov 17 | Descriptive Modeling: Evaluation | ||
| Nov 22 | Pattern Mining | PDM Chapter 13 | |
| Nov 24 | No class (Thanksgiving break) | Assignment 5 due (Sunday Nov 28 11:59pm) | |
| Nov 29 | No class (Project day) | ||
| Dec 1 | Final project presentation (Session 1) | ||
| Dec 6 | Final project presentation (Session 2) | ||
| Dec 8 | Final project presentation (Session 3) | Project final report due (Sunday Dec 12 11:59pm) |
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