| . | Day | Topic (tentative) | Due date (FIRM) |
| 1 | Jan 16 | Introduction; and B-tree reminders | . |
| . | Jan 18 | Hashing | . |
| 2 | Jan 23 | Project overview | . |
| . | Jan 25 | SAMs-1&2: Intro, Kd-trees and z-ordering | hw1 out Solutions |
| 3 | Jan 30 | SAMs-3: R-trees and variants | . |
| . | Feb 01 | SAMs-4: Grid files, dim. curse | . |
| 4 | Feb 06 | SAMs-5: metric trees, nearest neighbor search | hw1 due |
| . | Feb 08 | Fractals-1: introduction | . |
| 5 | Feb 13 | Fractals-1: introduction (cont'd - same foils as above) | . |
| . | Feb 15 |
Guest lecture: Graph
Mining Fractals-2: r-tree analysis, dim. reduction |
proposals due |
| 6 | Feb 20 | Fractals-3: dim curse; Fractals-4: regions and quadtrees | . |
| . | Feb 22 | Review Lecture | . |
| 7 | Feb 27 | Midterm | MIDTERM |
| . | Mar 01 | Text-1: full scanning; Text-2: inversion | . |
| 8 | Mar 06 | Text-3: clustering | hw2 out Solutions |
| . | Mar 08 | Text-4: LSI; SVD-1: definitions | . |
| 9 | Mar 13 | Spring Break | no classes |
| . | Mar 15 | Spring Break | no classes |
| 10 | Mar 20 | SVD-2: case studies | hw2 due |
| . | Mar 22 | SVD-3: properties | . |
| 11 | Mar 27 | Multimedia databases | . |
| . | Mar 29 | DSP (Digital signal processing - Fourier, Wavelets) | progress report |
| 12 | Apr 03 | DSP (Digital signal processing - Fourier, Wavelets) (cont'd) | . |
| . | Apr 05 | JPEG, MPEG and fractal compression | hw3 out Solutions |
| 13 | Apr 10 | Time series mining and forecasting | . |
| . | Apr 12 | DM: statistics reminders; and DM: AI reminders | . |
| 14 | Apr 17 | DM: OLAP | . |
| . | Apr 19 |
Carnival - no classes |
no classes |
| 15 | Apr 24 | DM: trees, Assoc. rules | hw3 due |
| . | Apr 26 |
ICA for data mining
(guest
lecture by Dr. Pan) |
. |
| 16 | May 01 | DM: Clustering; Misc. tools: approximate counting | final reports due |
| . | May 03 | Conclusions - Review lecture | . |
| . | May 04 | Poster | poster due |