Into to DataMining and Machine Learning 2020 2021

Lecturer: Dmitry Ignatov

TA: Stefan Nikolić

Homeworks

• Homework 1: Spectral Clustering
• Homework 2:
• Homework 3: Recommender Systems

Lecture on 16 January 2021

Intro slides. Course plan. Assessment criteria. ML&DM libraries. What to read and watch?

Practice: demonstration with Orange.

Lecture on 26 January 2021

Classification (continued). Quality metrics. ROC curves.

Practice: demonstration with Orange.

Lecture on 2 February 2021

Introduction to Clustering. Taxonomy of clustering methods. K-means. K-medoids. Fuzzy C-means. Types of distance metrics. Hierarchical clustering. DBScan

Practice: DBScan Demo.

Lecture on 09 February 2021

• Introduction to Clustering (continued). Density-based techniques. DBScan and Mean-shift.

• Graph and spectral clustering. Min-cuts and normalized cuts. Laplacian matrix. Fiedler vector. Applications.

Practice on 16 Feb 2021

Clustering with scikit-learn (k-means, hierarchical clustering, DBScan, MeanShift, Spectral Clustering).

Lecture on 9 March 2021

Frequent Itemsets. Association Rules. Algorithms: Apriori, FP-growth. Interestingness measures. Closed and maximal itemsets.

Practice on 16 March 2021

Frequent Itemset Mining (continued). Applications: 1) Taxonomies of Website Visitors and 2) Web advertising.

Exercises. Frequent Itemsets. FP-growth. Closed itemsets.

Practice. Orange, SPMF, Concept Explorer.