• Syllabus
• Schedule and foils
• Reading list

**** NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ****

• *** April 27***: final exam study guide is out
• *** April 25 ***: solutions to Homework 2
• ** April 5 **: Homework 3 is out
• ** March 3 **: Homework 2 is out
• ** Feb. 18 **: Midterm study guide is out
• ** Feb 3 ** Please make sure you see the two announcements on the bboard 
• • late policy, and 
  • reminders for project proposals
• ** Feb. 3 **  FYI, url of last year's offering (similar, but not identical to this year's)
• ** Jan. 21 **: Homework 1 released.
• ** Jan 19 **: the list of projects is out
• Welcome to the class!

Course information

• Instructor: Christos Faloutsos, (christos <at> cs.cmu.edu)
  • Wean Hall 7107, ph (412)-268.1457
  • office hours: We 11-12; also, by appointment
• TA: Brian Ziebart (bziebart AT cs.cmu.edu)
  • office hours: Fri 1:30-2:30, at  Wean Hall 3707
• Class meets: Tu-Th 3:00-4:20, WeH 4623
• URL for this very web page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/826.S09/

Project

• Project guidelines 
• List of suggested projects (internal to CMU)
• Phase 3 detailed grading scheme 

Homeworks

• Homework 1  and Solutions
• Homework 2 and solutions (new: 4/25)
• Homework 3

Exams

• Midterm study guide
• Final exam study guide

Bulletin board

Misc. resources

• ACM SIGKDD home page (the MAIN site for data mining: tools, datasets and other resources)
• ACM SIGMOD home page (DBMS resources, free software, papers, conference info)
  • Michael Ley's DB bibliography server (impressive!) and its SIGMOD mirror
  • DB Vendors: Oracle, Sybase, IBM - DB2, Microsoft SQL Server
• StatLib (statistical tools and datasets)
• info about hadoop and PIG
• multimedia and video retrieval: Informedia at CMU: