PACE Data Mining Boot Camp 1 (April 15-16, 2015)
 
PACE Data Mining Boot Camp 1

Wednesday, April 15- DAY 1

8:30 – 9:00am

Check-in and Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15am

Welcome and Introductions

9:15 – 10:00am

Technical Session 1 - Overview; Data Mining, Machine Learning, Statistics, CRISP-DM, Data Mining Trends and Applications­
Instructor: Natasha Balac

10:00 – 10:45am

Technical Session 2 - Introduction to Data Mining Tools (Weka)
Instructor: Nicole Wolter

10:45- 11:00am

Break

11:00- 12:15pm

Technical Session 3 - Data Preparation; Preprocessing, Descriptive Statistics
Instructor: Paul Rodriguez

12:15 – 1:15pm

Lunch

1:15 – 2:00pm

Technical Session 3 - Data Preparation (cont.); Exploratory Statistics and Visualizations
Instructor: Paul Rodriguez

2:00 – 3:00pm

Technical Session 4 - Supervised Algorithms; Inferring Rudimentary Rules and Decision Trees
Instructor: Natasha Balac

3:00 – 3:15pm

Break

3:15 – 5:00pm

Technical Session 5 - Supervised Algorithms; Numeric Prediction and Association Rules
Instructor: Natasha Balac


Thursday, April 16- DAY 2

8:30 – 9:00am

Check-in and Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00am

Technical 6 – Model Evaluation and Validation
Instructor: Natasha Balac, Nicole Wolter

10:00 – 10:45am

Technical Session 7 – Introduction to Data Mining Tools; R Programming
Instructor: Nicole Wolter

10:45 – 11:00am

Break

11:00 – 12:15pm

Technical Session 8 – Unsupervised Algorithms; K-means and EM Clustering
Instructor: Paul Rodriguez

12:15 – 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00 – 1:300pm

Machine Room Tour

1:30 – 2:00pm

Technical Session 8 – Unsupervised Algorithms (cont.); Hierarchical Clustering
Instructor: Paul Rodriguez

2:00 – 3:00pm

Guest Speaker

3:00 – 3:15pm

Break

3:15 – 5:00pm

Technical Session 9 – Going Forward and Getting Started; Case Study, Landscape of Models and Applications, Closing Discussions/ Q&A
Instructor: PACE Team