Course Schedule 2024
There are two weekly lectures, on Tuesday and Thursday. During the weekly computer lab sessions the staff will be present to answer questions about the practical assignments. These sessions take place on Thursday after the lecture. Please consult My Timetable for the times and locations. In the schedule below, lecture 38A is the lecture on Tuesday in week 38, 40B is the lecture on Thursday in week 40, and 43C is the computer lab session in week 43.
Currently, last year's slides are online; they will possibly be updated shortly before or after the lecture.
| Lecture | Subject/Slides | Literature | Deadlines |
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| 36B | Introduction and Overview | Article Feelders et al. | |
| 37A | Classification Trees (1) | Lecture notes on classification trees Chapter 8 of Book ISLR |
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| 37B | Classification Trees (2) | Lecture notes on classification trees Chapter 8 of Book ISLR |
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| 37C | Work on assignment 1 | ||
| 38A | Bagging and Random Forests Some small proofs |
Lecture notes on classification trees Chapter 8 of Book ISLR |
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| 38B | Undirected Graphical Models (1) Log-Linear Expansion Example |
Lecture notes on graphical models | |
| 38C | Work on assignment 1 | ||
| 39A | Undirected Graphical Models (2) Counting u-terms |
Lecture notes on graphical models | HW 1: Tuesday, September 24th |
| 39B | Undirected Graphical Models (continued) | ||
| 39C | Work on assignment 1 | ||
| 40A | Frequent Pattern Mining (1) | Lecture Notes on Frequent Item Set Mining | HW 2: Tuesday, October 1st |
| 40B | Frequent Pattern Mining (2) | Just the slides | |
| 40C | Work on assignment 1 | ||
| 41A | Text Mining (1) | Jurafsky and Martin, Chapter 4 |
HW 3: Tuesday, October 8th |
| 41B | Text Mining (2) | Jurafsky and Martin, Chapter 5 |
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| 41C | Work on assignment 1 | ||
| 41D | Deadline assignment 1 | Friday, October 11th | |
| 42A | Bayesian Networks (1) | Lecture Notes on Bayesian Networks | |
| 42B | Bayesian Networks (2) | Lecture Notes on Bayesian Networks | |
| 42C | Work on assignment 2 | ||
| 43A | Social Network Mining: Node Classification | Article Lu and Getoor | HW 4: Tuesday, October 22nd |
| 43B | Social Network Mining: Link Prediction | Articles Liben-Nowell and Kleinberg/El Hasan et al. | |
| 43C | Work on assignment 2 | ||
| 44A | No lecture | ||
| 44B | Q & A Session | ||
| 44C | Work on assignment 2 | ||
| 44D | Deadline assignment 2 | Friday, November 1st | |
| 45 | Digital Exam in Remindo |