Announcements

• Program 3 due Tuesday Nov 13• Homework 2 out today, due Mon Nov 19• Today: Discuss course project expectations and

ideas

Plug for Data Mining Course

• Next semester I’ll teach a course in Data Mining– Tue – Thur, 5:30-6:45

• This (like databases) is a U/G course• Currently Data Mining is a special topics course

but will be “regular” course soon– You can use it for technical elective

• Focus is on data mining algorithms• Prereqs: programming (351), calculus

– statistics / probabilities not required, but be prepared to learn

Revised Grading Breakdown

• We are not going to have as many programs and homework grade as I anticipated– We’ll have 3 HWs + 3 programs– Thus the % of total grade made up by HWs and

programs will drop

• Old breakdown: HW 20% programs 20% project 10% midterm 20% final 30%

• New breakdown: 5 best HW and progs 7% each, project 15%, midterm 20%, final 20%

Project Overview

• Course project is to be done in groups of 2-4– Each person must contribute– Final report describes roles of each member– Grade will not necessarily be the same member.

• Involves learning, implementing and describing• Project ideas on the web (we’ll go over them

today)

Course Project Milestones

• Tue Nov 13 (in class)– Each person turn in piece of paper with:

• Your name• Your group’s name• List of the members of your group• Very brief (one or two sentence) description of project topic

• Thur Nov 15 (in class)– I will give you recommended readings and other resources

• Tue Dec 4– Progress report due (more on this later)

• Dec 13 - Dec 20– Schedule demo w/ me– Turn in report and code at the demo