MGRECON 491 - Data Mining
- Course Description
- Course Materials and Preassignment
- Cases
- XLMiner Demonstration
as PowerPoint
- R Demonstration
as ZIP file
- SAS Enterprise Miner Demonstration
as HTML
or Power Point
- Lectures
- Topic 0. Data Mining
- Reading assignment: Berry and Linoff
- Pages 7--11. What is data mining, what can it do.
- Pages 16--18, 48--53. Data storage, sources,
preparation.
- Pages 61--64. Assumptions of data mining.
- Lecture
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- Topic 1. Overview of the Course
- Reading assignment: Berry and Linoff
- Pages 111--120. Decision trees.
- Pages 121--128. Neural networks.
- Pages 213--221. Boosting.
- Lecture
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- Topic 2. The Bias-Variance Tradeoff
- Reading assignment: Berry and Linoff
- Pages 111--120. Decision trees (review).
- Page 119. Study figure carefully, compare to
lecture Figure 22.
- Lecture
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- Topic 3. Linear Regression
- Reading assignment: Berry and Linoff
- Pages 131--168. Data preparation.
- Pages 81--82, 186--191. Lift.
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- Topic 4. Neural Networks
- Reading assignment: Berry and Linoff
- Pages 121--128. Neural networks (review).
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- Topic 5. Decision Trees
- Reading assignment: Berry and Linoff
- Pages 111--120. Decision trees (review).
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- Topic 6. Interactions
- Topic 7. Cluster Analysis
- Topic 8. Classification
- Topic 9. Association Rules
- Reading assignment: Berry and Linoff
- Page 307. Market Basket Analysis
- Pages 424--429. Association Rules
- Lecture
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- Topic 10. Classificatiion, Oversampling, and Lift
- Reading assignment: Berry and Linoff
- Pages 196--201. Oversampling.
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- Topic 11. AdaBoost
- Reading assignment: Berry and Linoff
- Pages 213--221. Boosting (review).
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- Topic 12. Principles of Datamining
- Reading assignment: Berry and Linoff
- Pages 36, 64, 90, 129, 181--182, 224--226.
Lessons learned
- Lecture
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- Homework Assignments