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Advanced Data Mining Course Overview

This document provides an introduction and overview for the Advanced Data Mining course offered in Spring 2012 at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The course will cover practical topics in data mining including imbalanced data, streaming data, big data, social recommendation, and social networks. Students will complete two major projects based on past KDD Cup challenges and present their work. The goal is for students to learn state-of-the-art data mining techniques and be able to implement a practical project. Grading will be based on assignments, projects and presentations, and a final exam.

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Advanced Data Mining Course Overview

This document provides an introduction and overview for the Advanced Data Mining course offered in Spring 2012 at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The course will cover practical topics in data mining including imbalanced data, streaming data, big data, social recommendation, and social networks. Students will complete two major projects based on past KDD Cup challenges and present their work. The goal is for students to learn state-of-the-art data mining techniques and be able to implement a practical project. Grading will be based on assignments, projects and presentations, and a final exam.

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COMP 4332, RMBI 4330

Advanced Data Mining (Spring


2012)
Qiang Yang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
qyang@[Link]
[Link]

2019/4/15 Course Introduction 1


Topics
 Review of Basics
 Practical Data Mining
 Imbalanced Data
 Streaming and Time Series Data
 Big Data
 Social Recommendation
 Social Media and Social Networks
 Hands on: 2 Major Projects
 Student Presentations
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Outcome and Objective
 Student will know the current state of
the art in Data Mining
 Student will be able to implement a
practical data mining project
 Student will be able to present their
ideas well
 Prepared for PG study, Internship, etc.

2019/4/15 Course Introduction 3


Projects: based on KDDCUPs

 Project 1:
 KDDCUPs on credit rating and customer
retention (KDDCUP 2009)
 Project 2:
 Yahoo! Music Recommendation (KDDCUP
2011)
 Project 3 (Optional): KDDCUP 2012

2019/4/15 Course Introduction 4


KDDCUP Examples
— KDDCUP from past years
— In general, we wish to
— 2007:
— Input: Data
— Predict if a user is going to rate a movie?

— Predict how many users are going to rate a — Output:


movie?
— Build model

— 2006: — Apply model to future data

— Predict if a patient has cancer from


medical images

— 2005:

— Given a web query (“Apple”), predict


the categories (IT, Food)

— 1998:

— Given a person, predict if this


person is going to donate money
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2019/4/15 Course Introduction 5
Important Sites

 Instructor Web Site


 [Link]
 TA: Yin Zhu and Kaixiang Mo
 Assignment Hand-in: online
 comp4332@[Link]
 Course Discussion Site:
 Check out the web cite…

2019/4/15 Course Introduction 6


Prerequisites
 Statistics and Probability would help,
 But will be reviewed in class
 Machine Learning/Pattern Recognition would
help,
 We will review some most important algorithms
 One programming language
 We will teach new languages in the tutorial

2019/4/15 Course Introduction 7


Grading
 Assignments 10%
 Course Projects and Presentations: 50%
 Final Exam 40%

2019/4/15 Course Introduction 8


More info

 Textbooks:
 Listed on Course Website

 Buy them online if you wish

2019/4/15 Course Introduction 9

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