• Syllabus
• Schedule and foils
• Reading list

**** NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ****

• *** 5/3 ***: Homework 3 solution is out
• *** 4/29 ***: Final exam study guide is out
• *** 4/29 ***: Friendly reminder: please don't forget to fill in the FCE form on the web. To Login, link to the Carnegie Mellon Portal at
  https://my.cmu.edu/site/main/page.academics
   and click on Faculty Course Evaluation, under the Courses heading, on the left side of the portal page
  
• Optional class, on Thu 4/15:  approximate algorithms; ICA
  
• *** 4/1 *** Homework 3 is out
• *** 3/24 ***: Homework 2 solution is out
• *** 3/2 *** Homework 2 is out
• *** 2/18 ***: Homework 1 solution is out
• *** 2/15 ***: extra office hour by instructor: Mo 2/22, 3-4pm
• *** 2/15 ***: midterm exam guide is out
• *** 2/11 ***: extra office hour by instructor: Mo 2/15, 1-2pm
• *** 2/10 ***: Extension for project proposal, to Tu. Feb. 16 (e-mail sent to everybody, from blackboard)
  
• *** 2/1 *** Late policy (also announced on the 'blackboard')
  
• *** 1/21 *** Homework 1 is out
• *** 1/17 *** Project guidelines and suggested projects
• *** 1/14 *** Welcome to the class!

Course information

• Instructor: Christos Faloutsos, (christos <at> cs.cmu.edu)
  • GHC 8019, ph (412)-268.1457
  • office hours: We 11-12; also, by appointment
• Class meets: Tu-Th 3:00-4:20, GHC 4215
• URL for this very web page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/826.S10/

Project

• Guidelines and grading scheme
• List of suggested projects (internal to CMU)

Homeworks

• HW1 is out. HW1 solution is out (CMU access only).
• HW2 is out. HW2 solution is out (CMU access only).
• HW3 is out. HW3 solution is out (CMU access only).

Exams

• Midterm exam guide is out
• Final exam study guide is out (*** new: 4/29 ***)
  

Bulletin board

Misc. resources

• ACM SIGKDD home page (the MAIN site for data mining: tools, datasets and other resources)
• KDD nuggets: wealth of information for data mining - datasets, software, jobs, call for papers etc etc.
• 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: