• Syllabus
• Schedule and foils
• Reading list

**** NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ****

• *** 12/11 ***: In the remote case one would like a regrade, please follow these steps.
• *** 12/4 ***: Final exam study guide is out
• *** 12/4 ***: HW3 solutions are out
• *** 11/25 ***: Final exam date is announced on the hub :Tue Dec. 10, 1pm-4pm, WEH 7500
• *** 11/21 ***: Project phase 3 grading scheme has been announced
  
• *** 11/21 ***: HW2 solutions are out
  
• *** 11/7 ***: Homework 3 is out
  
• *** 10/23 ***: Homework 2 is out
  
• *** 10/14 ***: Quiz questions are out, to help you prepare for the midterm
• *** 10/14 ***: midterm study guide is out
  
• *** 10/9*** : HW1 solutions are out
  
• *** 9/17 ***: project instructions are out
  
• *** 9/15 ***: HW1 is out (earlier, for your convenience)
• *** 8/31 ***: FYI, the class will be very similar to last year's class
  
• *** 8/30 ***: Welcome to the class!

Course information

• Instructor: Christos Faloutsos, (christos <at> cs.cmu.edu)
  • GHC 8019, ph (412)-268.1457
  • office hours: We 2-3pm; also, by appointment
• TAs: contact info, room number and office hour
  
• • Beutel, Alex (abeutel <at> cs.cmu.edu), GHC 7004 Mo 2-3
    
  • Lee, Seunghak (seunghak <at> cs.cmu.edu ), GHC 6219 Fri 1-2
  • Papalexakis, Vagelis (epapalex <at> cs.cmu.edu), GHC 9219 Mo 3-4
• Class meets: Tu-Th 1:30-2:50, GHC 4307
  
• URL for this very web page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/826.F13/

Late Policy - for all deliverables:

• No delay penalties, for medical etc emergencies (bring doctor's note).
• Each person has 4 'slip days' total, for the whole semester.
• • That is, no questions asked, if the total delay is 4 days or less.
  • 5% per day of delay, after that

Homeworks

• Homework 1 and solutions
  
• Homework 2 and solutions
  
• Homework 3 and solutions (New - 12/4)
  

Project

• Project instructions, and suggested list of projects (internal to CMU)
  

Exams

• Midterm study guide
• Final exam study guide (New - 12/4)
  

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