• Syllabus
• Schedule and foils
• Reading list

**** NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ****

• *** 11/26 ***:  final exam date, time and place: see the hub
  
• *** 11/26 ***: final exam study guide is out
  
• *** 11/25 *** REVIEW QUESTIONS: at www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Echristos/courses/826-resources/REVIEW-QUESTIONS/
  
• *** 11/25 ***: HW3 solutions are out
  
• *** 11/6 ***: HW3 is  out
• *** 11/6 ***: HW2 solutions are out
• *** 10/31 ***: no office hours by instructor on wed. 11/5.
  
• *** 10/15 ***: HW2 is  out
• *** 10/15***: midterm grades are posted on BB - see Marilyn, to inspect your midterm
  
• *** 10/7***: HW1 solutions are out
  
• *** 10/7 ***: Midterm study guide is out
  
• *** 10/4 ***: clarifications for default project
  
• *** 10/2 ***: Review questions, at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Echristos/courses/826-resources/REVIEW-QUESTIONS/
  
• *** 10/2 ***: HW0 solutions are out (pdf and tar-file)
  
• *** 9/28 ***: clarifications to HW1 (Q1 - output format; Q2.2 'hnext' specs)
  
• *** 9/22 ***: HW1 is out.
  
• *** 9/15 ***: HW0 is out; project instructions are out
  
• *** 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 1-2pm; also, by appointment
• TAs: contact info, and office hours:
  
• • HE, Yuning ( yuningh <at> andrew ) -           Mon 4:00-5:00pm @GHC 5th floor commons area
  • HOU, Chenying ( chenyinh <at> andrew ) -  Tu. 7:00-8:00pm @GHC 5th floor common area
  • LEE, Jay Yoon ( jaylee <at> andrew ) -        Fri. 10:30-11:30am @ GHC9227
  • SHAH, Neil ( neilshah <at> andrew ) -         Th. 2:00-3:00pm @ GHC8023
  • ZHANG, Yan ( yanzhan2 <at> andrew ) -      Fri. 9:30-10:30am @GHC 6th floor commons area
  • ZHENG, Peixin ( peixinz <at> andrew ) -     Mon 10:00-11:00am @GHC 5th floor commons area
  
  
• Class meets: Tu-Th 3:00-4:20, DH2302
  
• URL for this very web page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/826.F14/

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

Regrade-request policy

• Regrade requests should be done in writing/email
• within 7 days
  
• to the TA that graded the question, and specifying
1. the question under dispute (e.g., 'HW0-Q.2.b')
2. the extra points requested (e.g., '2 points out of 5')
3. and the justification (e.g., 'I forgot to eliminate mirror pairs')
• in the remote case there is no satisfactory resolution, please contact the instructor.
  

Homework pick-up information

• You may pick up graded homeworks etc, from the course admin
• Mrs. Marilyn Walgora, GHC 8120
• 8:30am-12noon, 1pm-4:30pm every weekday
• with photo-id (for your privacy protection)
  

Homeworks

• Homework 0  and solutions.
  
• Homework 1  and solutions
  
• Homework 2 is out
• Homework 3 and solutions
  

Project

• general instructions
• Internal to CMU:
  
• for M.Sc. students: default project
  
• for Ph.D. students: list of non-default projects
  

Exams

• Midterm study guide
  
• *New 11/25*: Review questions: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Echristos/courses/826-resources/REVIEW-QUESTIONS/
• *New 11/26* : Final exam study guide is out
  

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