• Syllabus
• Schedule and foils 
• Reading list

**** NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS ****

• *** 12/9 *** : Check the quiz questions (added question on IFS etc)
  
• *** 12/2 *** : Room of posters: 7-th floor atrium of GHC (12-5pm, Fri 12/7, as announced)
• *** 12/2 ***: Final exam study guide is out
  
• *** 12/2 *** : HW3 solutions are out.
  
• *** 11/28*** : 2 extra `slip days' to everybody (see bboard announcement)
• *** 11/16 *** : HW2 solutions are out
  
• *** 11/12 *** : Check the quiz questions on SVD and tensors
• *** 10/25 ***: global feedback from phase1 and  guidelines for phase2
  
• *** 10/24 ***: stats about midterm etc are here
  
• *** 10/24 *** : HW2 is out.
  
• *** 10/18 *** : Quiz questions are out - and will keep on being updated
  
• *** 10/17 *** : HW1 solutions are out
  
• *** 10/14 ***: Midterm exam study guide is out.
  
• *** 9/26 ***: by popular request, the *.pps  (='read only')  lecture foils are  on the schedule page, or, directly, in this directory.
  
• *** 9/19 ***: HW1 is out (see below)
• *** 9/17 ***: project guidelines and suggested projects, are out - see below
  
• *** 9/9 *** NO office hours for the week of 9/10 (neither by instructor, nor TAs - our apologies)
• *** 9/9 *** Homework 0 is out
  

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:
  
• Antonio Juarez, ajuarez <at> cs.cmu.edu, office hour: Fri 2pm,   GHC8015.
  
• Robert Fisher,   rwfisher <at> cmu.edu,    office hour: Mo 3pm,  GHC8227.
• Kai Ren,           kair <at> cs.cmu.edu,       office hour: Fri 4:30pm,   GHC9009. (Notice the hour change, as of 9/21)
  
• Class meets: Tu-Th 12:00-1:20, GHC 4307
  
• URL for this very web page: www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/courses/826.F12

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 0 is out
• Homework 1 is out (in pdf) and solutions
• Homework 2 is out. and solutions
  
• Homework 3 is out, now with solutions (as of 12/2).
  

Project

• Project guidelines and list of suggested project (internal to CMU)
  

Exams

• Midterm exam study guide (NEW, 10/14); Quiz questions for test preparation (NEW 10/18)
• Final exam study guide (NEW, 12/2)
  

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