CS512: Data Mining
Principles
Spring, 2021
Course
Objective
Provide a
comprehensive and in-depth introduction of the fundamental principles and
techniques of data mining.
·
Be
able to understand the key concepts and underlying principles of data mining techniques,
including frequent pattern mining, classification, clustering, deep learning,
outlier detection, network mining.
·
Be
able to apply the key data mining techniques to realistic setting, evaluate and
analyze the mining results.
Basic
Information
Class
meeting: online
· Instructor: Hanghang Tong (htong@illinois.edu)
·
TAs:
o
Qinghai Zhou (qinghai2@illinois.edu)
o
Zhe
Xu (zhexu3@illinois.edu)
Office
Hours: [All CT
time, all on Zooms. Note that each of us has a different zoom link & pwd. Please refer to announcement from compass2g/piazza]
·
Hanghang
Tong: 9-10am CT, Monday
·
Qinghai
Zhou: 9:00-9:40am Tuesday; 9:00-9:40pm Thursday
·
Zhe
Xu: 8:00-8:40pm Wednesday; 2:00-2:40pm Friday
Online
resources:
· Piazza:
http://piazza.com/illinois/spring2021/cs512
· Compass 2g
Schedule
(Tentative, subject to slight adjustment)
·
Logistics
& Intro (week 1)
·
Frequent
Pattern Mining (weeks 2 & 3)
·
Classification
(weeks 4 & 5)
·
Clustering
(weeks 6 & 7)
·
Deep
Learning (week 8 & 9)
·
Outlier
& Anomaly Detection (week 10)
·
Graph
Connectivity Optimization (week 11)
·
Network
Science of Teams (week 12)
·
NoX:
Network-as-a-Context (week 13)
·
Network
Alignment (week 14)
·
Fair
Network Mining (week 15)
Coursework,
Grading and Key Dates
·
Two midterm exams: 40% in total
(equal weights)
o
First
mid-term: 3/15/2021
o
Second
mid-term: 4/30/2021
·
Two assignments: 30% in total (equal
weights)
o
First
assignment: 2/1/2021 out; 3/5/2021 due
o
Second
assignment: 3/20/2021 out; 4/25/2021 due
·
Class project: 30%
o
Proposal
(2%): due on 2/25/2021
o
Mid-term
report (8%): due on 3/30/2021
o
Final
report (20%): due on 5/5/2021
o
Individual
project or group project (3 members at most per group)
Textbooks
Required: Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber and Jian Pei, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (3rd
ed), Morgan Kaufmann, 2011
Reference:
·
Charu
C. Aggarwal, Data Mining: The Textbook,
Springer, 2015
·
P.-N.
Tan, M. Steinbach and V. Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining, Wiley, 2005 (2nd
ed. 2016)
·
Mohammed
J. Zaki and Wagner Meira
Jr., Data Mining and Analysis: Fundamental Concepts and Algorithms, Cambridge
University Press, 2014
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