Data Mining

B669: Topics in Database and Information Systems
Spring 1999

Instructor: Ed Robertson
Class: 17:30-20:00 Monday, Lindley 115
Pizza break: 18:45-19:00, the Abyss note room change
Newsgroup: ac.csci.b669.1354

Seminar Goal & Objectives

The goal of this seminar is exposure to and involvement in data mining research at IU and elsewhere.

Objectives include:

Reading Topics

Possible Projects

Weekly Schedule

Date, Topic
& Presenters 		Readings
Jan. 20
     Datacube 		Sarawagi, Thomas and Agrawal, ``Integrating association rule mining with relational database systems: alternatives and implications'', SIGMOD `98, 343-354. Follow QUEST link for this and other related papers.
Gray, Chaudhuri, Bosworth, Layman, Reichart, and Venkatrao, ``Data Cube: a relational aggregation operator generalizing group-by, cross-tab, and sub-totals'', Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 1,1 29-54.
Jan. 25
  Association rules
Feb. 1
   Visualization 		short paper
longer paper on architecture
Feb. 8
   Lattices and partitions 		CE: The Classifier-Estimator Framework for Data Mining
Feb. 15
   Finding minimal keys
  Giannella & Wyss
Feb. 22
   Association Rules
  Savintsev & Vigo 		Query Flocks (also SIGMOD 1998)
March 1
   Commercial datamining software
  Spanburg & White 		Microsoft's data miner, PC version (a .exe file) direct from Microsoft or a local Word document
March 8
   Visualization
  Groth, conductor 		background material
March 22
  exploring Boolean domains
   Wu
March 29
  classification
   Ramakrishnan 2 		readings available in copier room by Saturday, Mar 27
April 5
  mining for keys
  Giannella & Wyss
April 12
  mining scientific data
  Savintsev
Mining Scientific Data
Because of ACM's access control, you may need to go to the ACM's Digital Library, then select "Browse the Digital Library", then page down to "ACM Journals and Magazines" and select "Communications of the ACM", then select "Volume 39 (1996)" and look for Fayyad, finally selecting the pdf.
  a commercial application
  Martin
April 19
  meta-data queries
  Van Gucht
April 26
Final Project Presentations
Allen & Rati; Wu; Groth; Giannella & Wyss
May 3
Final Project Presentations
Ramakrishnan, Ramakrishnan, & Venkataramani; Spanburg & White; Savintsev & Vigo

Links to Datamining Sites

Class Enrollment and Authorization

The minimal background is B461, B561, or the equivalent.

Send email to edrbtsn@cs.indiana.edu for authorization. Be sure to include your student ID number. If you have not already taken a class with me, please include a synopsis of your database experience.

class roster

PIZZA

Order pizza for this weeks class or place a standing order for pizza every week during class.
Last modified: Thu Apr 22 17:34:46 EST 1999