Transcript Courses - Index of

ML, DM education
What’s cookin’ ?
Maja Skrjanc, Tanja Urbancic, Peter Flach
Resources
Solomon European Network - Data Mining and Decision
Support Courses (http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~ross/MLearnCourses.html)
MLnet (http://www.mlnet.org/cgibin/mlnetois.pl/?File=courses.html)
KDnuggets (http://www.kdnuggets.com/courses/index.html)
David W. Aha home page
(http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/~aha/research/ml/courses.html)
Decision support system resources
(http://dssresources.com/)
CS courses characteristics
A review of data mining techniques, including decision trees,
rule based learning, neural networks, inductive logic
programming.
Most web sites contain links to assigned reading materials,
some of them available online as textbooks. Various courses
have also links to required readings, usually very recent papers,
which cover primarily newer topics like text and web mining.
United States vs. Europe:
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novel, popular topics
Interdisciplinary area: statistics, data warehousing, complexity
analysis, data visualization, privacy and security issues
Orientation towards real world problems
CS courses - examples
Masters program in knowledge discovery and data mining in CALD
Center (Center for Automated Learning and Discovery) at Carnegie
Mellon University (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cald/about.html)
MSc in machine learning at University of Bristol
(http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Teaching/MachineLearning/ )
Principles of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Department of
Computing Science, University of Alberta,
(http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~zaiane/courses/cmput690/index.html)
Web data mining; Computer Science, Telecommunications, and
Information Technology, DePaul University
(http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/~mobasher/classes/cs589/syllabus.html)
Ullman’s course on Data mining at Stanford University:
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Exam (http://www-db.stanford.edu/~ullman/mining/final.html)
Lecture notes (http://hake.stanford.edu/~ullman/mining/mining.html)
Non-CS courses
examples
Graduate Certificate Program in Data Warehousing and Business
Intelligence at the Center for Information Management &
Technology at Loyola University
(http://gsb.luc.edu/centers/cimt/certificate/dwcert1.html)
Department of Medical Informatics ,Health Sciences campus of
Columbia University
(http://www.cpmc.columbia.edu/edu/degree/curriculum.html)
The graduate school in computational Biology, Bioinformatics,
and Biometry (ComBi)
(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/research/hallinto/TOIMINTARAPORTIT/1
999/report99/node4.html#SECTION00041200000000000000)
On-line tutorials
Data Mining: Theory and Practice, Yike Guo, Department of
Computing, Imperial College, UK
(http://ruby.doc.ic.ac.uk/teaching/km99/)
Basic concepts of data mining, basic data mining techniques, data
mining procedure in real world applications, future research
trends, data warehouse and decision support.
Kurt Thearling, Development Wheelhouse Corporation Burlington,
MA (http://www3.shore.net/~kht/text/dmwhite/dmwhite.shtml )
Introduction to data mining, presentation of data mining
techniques, real world examples.
IT professionals courses
- examples
SAS seminars (http://www.sas.com/service/edu/bks/index.html)
SPSS Integral Solutions Limited,
(http://www.spss.com/training/descriptions.cfm)
Vendor independant
DCI (http://www.dci.com/events/datamin1/)
The Modeling Agency, The Woodlands, Texas (http://www.themodeling-agency.com/training/index.html)
IT professionals and
executives courses characteristics
Customized for target audience, case studies
Different approaches
Mostly held in the USA
Some of them are vendor independant
Usual duration 1-3 days
Themes: introductory DM seminars, tools,
cross-selling, CRM, e-commerce, DSS: DW,
basic statistics, Excel pivot tables,..