• Syllabus
• Schedule and foils
• Reading list

**** NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ****

• *** 5/3 ***: Partial-credit scheme for phase 3 (default projects)
• *** 4/29 ***: Final exam
  • study guide is out
  • also, sample final exam, internal to CMU
  • and, reminder: review questions (updated 4/30).
• *** 4/19***: Solutions for HW4 are out.
  
• *** 4/5 ***: Partial-credit scheme for phase1&2 (default projects)
  
• *** 3/22***: Solutions for HW3 are out.
  
• *** 3/19***: Homework 4 is out.
  
• *** 3/19 ***: default project - phase 2: the datasets are also available here
  
• *** 3/8 ***: project phase2: reduced workload for 1-person teams (p.3, red highlight)
  
• *** 2/24 ***: final exam schedule: at the hub
  
• *** 2/22 ***: Sample midterm exam (internal to CMU - please do not post/publish)
  
• *** 2/20 ***: Midterm exam study guide is out
  
• *** 2/20 ***: HW3 is out
  
• *** 2/14 ***: Solutions for HW2 are out
  
• *** 2/12 ***: Check clarifications for default project - project description, and grading scheme, with yellow or red highlights.
  
• *** 2/6 ***: Solutions for HW1 are out
  
• *** 2/3 ***: FYI - instructions for postgres, for phase2 of default project
• *** 2/1 ***: HW2 is out
• *** 1/25 ***: Project information is out
• *** 1/23 ***: HW1 is out.
• *** 1/14 ***: Welcome to the class! First lecture is on Wed. Jan 18.

Course information

• Instructor: Christos Faloutsos, ( christos @ andrew )
  • GHC 8019, cell ph (412)-576.79 three two
  • office hours: Tu 2-3pm; also, by appointment
• TA and office hours:
  
• LIU, Yuang yuangl@andrew; Fri 3-4pm, GHC 5th floor Citadel Commons
• Graders:
  • CHANDRASEKARAN, Sanjay sanjayc @ andrew
    
  • FERNAU, Joey : rfernau @ andrew
  • NAHTA, Mohak : mnahta @ andrew
  • VARMA, Tanay : tvarma @ andrew
• Course admin: Mrs. Ann Stetser, GHC8125.
• Class meets: M-W, 3:00-4:20, HH B131
  
• URL for this very web page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/826.S17/

Late Policy - for all deliverables:

• No delay penalties, for medical/family/etc emergencies (bring written documentation, like 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

• To use slip days:
  
• email you material to all the TAs
• with the subject line:     15-826 Homework Submission (HW #)
  
• and the count of slip days you use, as well as the count of slip days left

Regrade-request policy

• Regrade requests should be done in writing/email
• within 2 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, but the rest of my answer was correct')
• 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. Ann Stetser, GHC 8125
• 9:00-11:15am, 1:30-4:30pm every weekday
• with photo-id (for your privacy protection)
  

Homeworks

• HW1 is out - and solutions.
  
• HW2 is out - and solutions.
• HW3 is out - and solutions.
  
• HW4 is out - and solutions.
  

Project

• Project description is out
  
• Getting Started with PostgreSQL
  

Exams

• Midterm study guide, and sample exam (internal to CMU) 
• Final exam study guide, and sample exam (internal to CMU) [*** new, 4/29 ***]
  
• Final exam date/time: at the hub

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
• DASL ( Data and Story Library - statistical tools and datasets)
• info about hadoop and PIG