Data Mining Lab Meetings

Overview

The Data Mining lab meetings take place Mondays 1:00-2:00 pm in KEC 1007. Anyone interested in data mining topics is welcome to attend. These lab meetings will consist of tutorials, practice talks, and brainstorming sessions. If you would like to volunteer to lead one of these meetings, please feel free to contact any of one of the faculty (Drs Fern, Raich, Wong) that run these meetings. Please see the calendar below for the schedule.

Calendar

Winter 2010

  • Jan 25 - How to do good research, get it published in SIGKDD and get it cited! (Presented by Eamonn Keogh at KDD 2009)
  • Feb 1 - No lab meeting this week due to conference deadlines
  • Feb 8 - No lab meeting
  • Feb 15 - No lab meeting
  • Feb 22 - Brainstorming Session led by Forrest Briggs
  • March 1 - Brainstorming Session led by Balaji Lakshminarayanan
  • March 8 - Brainstorming Session led by Ian Oberst, Shubhomoy Das, Weng-Keen Wong
  • March 15 - TBD

Fall 2009

  • Oct 12 - Expectation-Maximization (Presenter: Weng-Keen Wong, Slides)
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  • Oct 19 - Topic Models: Latent Semantic Indexing (Presenter: Weng-Keen Wong, Slides)
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  • Oct 26 - Topic Models: Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing (Presenter: Weng-Keen Wong, Slides)
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  • Nov 9 - Topic Models: Latent Dirichlet Allocation (Part I) (Presenter: Paul Wilkins, Slides)
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  • Nov 16 - Topic Models: Latent Dirichlet Allocation (Part II) (Presenter: Paul Wilkins)
  • Nov 23 - Topic Models: Supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Conditional Latent Dirichlet Allocation (Presenter: Weng-Keen Wong)
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  • Nov 30 - Practice talks by Forrest and Balaji
  • Dec 7 - TBA