Fall 2007

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Handouts

(Virtual) handouts for the class are available here. These (usually) won't actually be handed out in class, so feel free to either view these files online or print them out for yourself.

• Cases
  • Charles Book Club
  • Tayko Software Reseller
  • Tayko Software Reseller - full solution
  • German Credit
  • Direct Mail Fundraising
  • IMRB Bath Soap
• Slides from class (based on textbook: Data Mining Techniques (Second Edition) by Michael J. A. Berry and Gordon S. Linoff, 2004, John Wiley & Sons.)
  • Chapter 1 - week 1.
  • Chapter 2 - week 1.
  • Chapter 3 - week 2.
  • Chapter 4 - week 3.
  • Chapter 5 - week 5.
  • Chapter 6 - week 4.
  • Chapter 7 - week 6.
  • Chapter 8 - week 7.
  • Chapter 9 - week 8.
  • Chapter 11 - week 9.
• Notes on class exercises
  • Class 1 - week 1.
  • Class 2 - week 1.
  • Class 4 - week 2.
  • Class 5 - week 3.
  • Class 6 - week 3.
  • Class 7 - week 4.
  • Class 8 - week 4.
  • Class 10 - week 5.
  • Class 12 - week 6.
  • Class 13 - week 7.
  • Class 14 - week 7.
  • Class 16 - week 8.
  • Class 18 - week 9.
    • There appears to be an XLMiner bug with Excel 2007 (not Excel 2003) that prevents the dendogram from being drawn in hierarchical clustering. If using Excel 2007, this file, which shows what the dendogram output should look like.
• Media articles related to data mining
  • New York Times article on tracking of web use by marketers
  • MSNBC.com article on using neural networks to predict movie box-office success
  • New York Times article on Web 3.0
  • Newspaper article illustrating use of data mining in baseball
  • American Statistical Association "frequently asked questions" regarding privacy implications of data mining
• Practice midterm exam - 10 practice multiple choice questions similar in style to the ones on the final exam (remember there is no actual graded midterm)
• Practice midterm answer key
• Grade guide
• Practice multiple choice questions - 5 practice multiple choice questions similar to the ones on the final exam
• Study Guide - print this out and bring it with you to the final exam - it is a 4-page document with question topics for the short-answer section of the final exam and space for notes
• Timetable and evaluation sheet for class presentations - print this out and bring it with you on Monday November 26 (remember quadruple class participation that day)

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