| Date | Topic | Notes | Reading | Due Today | Slides |
| Aug 20 | Introduction and course overview | Lecture 1 | |||
| Aug 22 | Elements of KDD | PDM Chapter 1 | Lecture 2 | ||
| Aug 27 | Data representation and preparation | PDM Chapter 2 | Lecture 3 | ||
| Aug 29 | Data Exploration | PDM Chapter 3, R Tutorial | Lecture 4 | ||
| Sept 3 | No class: Labor day | ||||
| Sept 5 | Background: Statistics | PDM Chapter 4 | Homework 1 | Lecture 5 | |
| Sept 10 | Background: Statistics | PDM Chapter 5.1-5.3.1 | Lecture 6 | ||
| Sept 12 | Predictive modeling: representation | PDM Chapter 6.1-6.3 | Lecture 7 | ||
| Sept 17 | Predictive modeling: learning I | PDM Chapter 7 | Lecture 8 | ||
| Sept 19 | Predictive modeling: learning II | PDM Chapter 8 | Homework 2 | Lecture 9 (updated) | |
| Sept 24 | Predictive modeling: learning II (cont) | PDM Chapter 10 | Project proposal | See lecture 9 | |
| Sept 26 | Predictive modeling: evaluation | Lecture 10 | |||
| Oct 1 | Predictive modeling: evaluation (cont) | ||||
| Oct 3 | Descriptive modeling: representation | PDM Chapter 6.4-6.6 | Homework 3 | Lecture 11 | |
| Oct 8 | No class: October break | ||||
| Oct 10 | Descriptive modeling: learning I | PDM Chapter 9 | Lecture 12 | ||
| Oct 15 | Midterm review | Midterm: 7-9pm CIVL 1252 | Review | ||
| Oct 17 | Descriptive modeling: learning II | An Impossibility Theorem for Clustering | Lecture 13 | ||
| Oct 22 | No class: Instructor out of town | ||||
| Oct 24 | No class: Instructor out of town | ||||
| Oct 29 | Descriptive modeling: learning III | A Tutorial on Learning With Bayesian Networks | Homework 4 | Lecture 14 | |
| Oct 31 | Descriptive modeling: evaluation | PDM Chapter 5.3.2, 6.7 | Lecture 15 | ||
| Nov 5 | Pattern mining: representation/learning | PDM Chapter 13 | Lecture 16 | ||
| Nov 7 | Class cancelled | ||||
| Nov 12 | Pattern mining: learning II | State of the Art of Graph-based Data Mining | Homework 5 | Lecture 17 | |
| Nov 14 | Anomaly detection | Information-Theoretic Measures for Anomaly Detection | Lecture 18 | ||
| Nov 19 | KDD systems/Myths and pitfalls of KDD | PDM Chapter 12 | Lecture 19 | ||
| Nov 21 | No class: Thanksgiving break | ||||
| Nov 26 | Current research: Bioinformatics | Review report | |||
| Nov 28 | Current research: Privacy preserving data mining | Slides | |||
| Dec 3 | Current research: Statistical relational learning | Slides | |||
| Dec 5 | Project presentations | ||||
| Dec 7 | No Class | Final report |