The class will be next offered in Winter 2011.
The new course number is CS246.
See http://cs246.stanford.edu for more info.


CS345A:
Data Mining
Winter 2010

Course information:

Instructors:

Jure Leskovec
Office Hours: Wednesdays 9-10am, Gates 418

Anand Rajaraman
Office Hours: Tuesday/Thursday 5:30-6:30pm (after the class in the same room)

Room:

Tuesday, Thursday 4:15PM - 5:30PM in 200-203 (History Corner).

Teaching assistants:

Abhishek Gupta (abhig@cs.stanford.edu). Office Hours: Mon 3.30-5 PM Gates B26A, Fri 3.30-5 pm Gates B24A

Roshan Sumbaly (rsumbaly@cs.stanford.edu). Office Hours: Monday 1PM-2.15PM in Gates B24B / Pup Cluster

Staff mailing list:

You can reach us at cs345a-win0910-staff@lists.stanford.edu

Prerequisites:

CS145 or equivalent.

Materials:

Readings have been derived from the book Mining of Massive Datasets. Also you will find Chapter 20.2, 22 and 23 of the second edition of Database Systems: The Complete Book (Garcia-Molina, Ullman, Widom) relevant. Slides from the lectures will be made available in PDF format.

Students will use the Gradiance automated homework system for which a fee will be charged. Note: if you already have Gradiance (GOAL) privileges from CS145 or CS245 within the past year, you should also have access to the CS345A homework without paying an additional fee. Notes and/or slides will be posted on-line.

You can see earlier versions of the notes and slides covering 2008/09 CS345a Data Mining. Not all these topics will be covered this year.

Requirements:

There will be periodic homeworks (some on-line, using the Gradiance system), a final exam, and a project on web-mining. The homework will count just enough to encourage you to do it, about 20%. The project and final will account for the bulk of the credit, in roughly equal proportions.

Projects:

Course outline

See Handouts for a list of topics and reading materials.

Announcements:

Important Dates

Challenge Problems (in addition to the Gradiance homeworks):
Gradiance homeworks:
Final Project: Finals: Alternate Finals: