INFO 523: Data Mining & Discovery

Fall 2025

This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester. Note that this schedule will be updated as the semester progresses and the timeline of topics and assignments might be updated throughout the semester.

Week	Date	Topic		Prepare	Due
1	Mon, Aug 25	Welcome	Part I 🎥 Part II 🎥	🎥 Assignment Workflow - Part I 🎥 Assignment Workflow - Part II 🎥 Assignment Workflow - Part III 🎥 Assignment Workflow - Part IV (Optional) 🎥 Reading Quizzes
	Fri, Aug 29	Intro to Python	🎥	📚 Python Data Analysis - Chp 2 📚 Python Data Analysis - Chp 3
2	Mon, Sep 1	Labor Day (No Class)
	Wed, Sep 3	Introduction to Data Mining Intro to Numpy	🎥 🎥	📚 Data Mining Concept - Chp 1 📚 Python Data Analysis - Chp 4
	Fri, Sep 5	Intro to Pandas	🎥	📚 Python Data Analysis - Chp 4 📚 Python Data Analysis - Chp 5	✅ RQ 1
3	Mon, Sep 8	Sampling + conclusions Intro to Pandas	Part I 🎥 Part II 🎥	📚 Prac Stats for DS - Chp 2 📚 Python Data Analysis - Chp 5 📚 Python Data Analysis - Chp 6
	Fri, Sep 12	Final Project	🎥	🎥 Quarto + VSCode
4	Mon, Sep 15	Exploratory Data Analysis	🎥	📚 Prac Stats for DS - Chp 1
	Fri, Sep 19	Data Vizualization	🎥	📚 Python Data Analysis - Chp 9	📝 HW 1 ✅ RQ 2
5	Mon, Sep 22	Data Preprocessing	Part I 🎥 Part II 🎥 Part III 🎥	📚 Python Data Analysis - Chp 7 📚 Python Data Analysis - Chp 8
	Fri, Sep 26
6	Mon, Sep 29	Classification I	🎥	📃 Data Preprocessing in Python
	Fri, Oct 3				📝 HW 2
7	Mon, Oct 6	Classification I Cont.	🎥	📚 ISL - Chp 4
	Fri, Oct 10
8	Mon, Oct 13	Model Evaluation	🎥	📚 ISL - Chp 8.1
	Fri, Oct 17	Cross Validation	🎥	📚 ISL - Chp 5
9	Mon, Oct 20	Regression I	Part I 🎥 Part II 🎥 Part III 🎥	📚 ISL - Chp 3 📚 ISL - Chp 6, up to regularization
	Wed, Oct 22	Final Project Peer Review	🎥
	Fri, Oct 24				📑 Project proposals for peer review 📝 HW 3 ✅ RQ 3
10	Mon, Oct 27	Regression II	Part I 🎥 Part II 🎥	📚 ISL - Chp 6, second half
					📑 Project proposals for instructor review
	Fri, Oct 31
11	Mon, Nov 3	Regression III	🎥	📚 ISL - Chp 7 📚 ISL - Chp 8.2
	Fri, Nov 7
12	Mon, Nov 10	Support Vector Machines	🎥	📚 ISL - Chp 9
	Fri, Nov 14				📝 HW 4 ✅ RQ 4
13	Mon, Nov 17	Unsupervised Learning Methods I	Part I 🎥 Part II 🎥 Part III 🎥	📚 Prac Stats for DS - Chp 7 (pgs 294-302)
	Fri, Nov 21
14	Mon, Nov 24	Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
	Fri, Nov 28	Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
15	Mon, Dec 1	Unsupervised Learning Methods II	Part I 🎥 Part II 🎥	📚 Prac Stats for DS - Chp 7 (pgs 302- 325)
	Fri, Dec 5				📝 HW 5 ✅ RQ 5
16	Mon, Dec 8	Association Rules	🎥 - IP	📚 Data Mining Concept - Chp 4 📃 Data Mining in Python
	Fri, Dec 12				📝 ds-experience
Finals	Mon, Dec 15	Final Project Presentations
	Wed, Dec 17				Final assignment + Final project @ 5pm