Machine Learning and Data Mining Assignments

For those assignments which are reading assignments, you should do the following:

• Carefully read through the assigned paper or book chapter.
  
• Before the class on which the paper is due, post to the course Caucus conference with at least one question that you have about the reading, or comment on something you think is interesting.
• At the same time, also post to the course Caucus conference a sample take-home exam question. I will use a subset of these on the exams.
  

Assignment 0: Introductions. Assigned on Monday, 3/28. Due on Tuesday, 3/29, by 11:55 pm.

Reading: Data Mining and Statistics: What's the Connection? Caucus postings due Wednesday, 3/30, by 7 am.

Assignment 1: Getting Started. Assigned on Monday, 3/28. Due on Friday, 4/1, in class.

Reading: Nearest Neighbor Queries. Caucus postings due Monday, 4/4, by 7 am.

Assignment 2: k-Nearest Neighbor. Assigned on Friday, 4/1. Due on Friday, 4/8 in class.

Assignment 3: Clustering. Assigned on Friday, 4/8. Due on Friday, 4/15 in class.

Reading: Scaling Clustering Algorithms to Large Databases Caucus postings due Wednesday, 4/13, by 7 am.

Reading: CURE: An Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Large Databases. Caucus postings due Wednesday, 4/20, by 7 am.

Assignment 4: Agglomerative Clustering. Assigned on Monday, 4/18. Due on Monday, 4/25 in class.

Exam 1. Assigned on Monday, 4/25. Due on Friday, 4/29 in class.

Assignment 5: Association Rules. Assigned on Friday, 4/29. Due on Monday, 5/9 in class.

Reading: The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web. Caucus postings due Friday, 5/6, by 7 am.

Reading: Mining the link structure of the World Wide Web. Caucus postings due Wednesday, 5/11, by 7 am.

Assignment 7: PageRank. Assigned on Wednesday, 5/10. Due on Wednesday, 5/17 in class.

Reading: Empirical Analysis of Predictive Algorithms for Collaborative Filtering. Caucus postings due Monday, 5/23, by 7 am.

Video. Data Mining: Good, Bad, or Just a Tool? Caucus postings before class on Friday, 5/20. Watch video in class, and post again by 7 am on Monday, 5/23.

Final Project. Due Monday 6/6, at the end of the last exam. If you happen to finish it early, let me know via an email so I can start grading it early since I'm going to be crunched at the end of exam week. Thanks!

Exam 2. Assigned on Friday, 4/27. Due on Wednesday, 6/1 in class.