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Data Mining and Exploration

Week-by-Week listing

The 'slides' link is to 4-up handout for printing. The 'discuss' link points to the slides on the NB site where questions can be asked.

Week 1

Lectures Introduction [ slides, discuss ] Visualization [ slides, discuss ]
Handout Document for discussion.Visualization Notes.

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Week 2

Lectures Data Preprocessing [ slides, discuss ] Descriptive Modelling [ lecture slides, discuss ]

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Week 3

Cancelled

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Week 4

Lectures Descriptive Modelling continued [ lecture slides, discuss ], Predictive Modelling [ slides, discuss ]
Handout SVM Notes

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Week 5

Lectures Association Rules [ slides, 4up ] Ensemble Methods [ slides, discuss ] Evaluation [ slides, discuss ]
Web resources ROC Graphs: Notes and Practical Considerations for Data Mining Researchers by Tom Fawcett, Technical report HPL-2003-4.
useful web page by Giorgio Ingargiola from Temple Univeristy on ID3 and c4.5

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This page was revised by Stefanos Angelidis and is maintained by Nigel Goddard

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