Assignment #5 released

Assignment #5 was released. It is due on December 13th. No late submissions will be accepted.

Assignment #4 deadline now Dec 6th (no late submissions allowed)

As mentioned in class, the deadline for assignment #4 is extended. It is now due at midnight, Wednesday, December 6th. However, no submissions will be allowed after that.

Assignment #3 deadline extended by one day

The deadline for assignment #3 is extended by one day and it is now due on midnight, Wednesday, November 15th.

Assignment #2 posted

The second assignment (on recommender systems) has been posted. It is due on October 23rd.

Assignment #1 due date extended by 2 days

The due date for Assignment #1 has been pushed back by two days. New due date is Wednesday, Sep 27th, before midnight (for full points). Late submission policy applies per the syllabus.

Updated sample output files for Assignment #1

Sample output files for Assignment #1 have been updated, you can get them under Assignments.

Assignments posted

The test assignment and the first assignment have been posted at http://db.cs.pitt.edu/courses/cs1656/fall2017/assign.html

Material and solutions posted on tophat.com

All material from the first two weeks of classes, plus the solutions for Friday's recitation have been posted at tophat.com. Additional material has been posted under Class Notes.

Web site for Fall 2017 semester is live.

The web site for the Fall 2017 semester is now live at http://cs1656.org. A notable change from prior years is the use of the TopHat system. We will use TopHat for

• collecting student responses for in-class activities, and
• sharing slides and other lecture/recitation/assignment material.

Final Exam + Office Hours

The final exam will be on Tuesday, April 25th at noon in room 5129 in the Sennott Square Building.

Also, the instructor will have office hours during finals week as follows:
* MONDAY: 3:00 - 5:00pm

* TUESDAY: 4:00 - 5:00pm

* WEDNESDAY: 3:00 - 5:00pm

All lecture and recitation notes have been uploaded

All notes from the lectures and the recitations have now been uploaded on the class web site.

Last assignment released

Assignment #4 has been posted.

Posted recommender systems material

Material for the recommender systems lectures have been posted at http://cs1656.org/notes.html#08.

Posted material on data warehousing and data summarization/visualization

The slides from last week's data warehousing and data summarization/visualization classes have been posted under Class Notes,

First assignment updated

The first assignment has been updated. You will need to use the new github repository to submit it. Details were posted. It is now due on February 3rd.

Posted Data Mining slides and recitation handout

The slides from yesterday's data mining class have been posted under Class Notes, whereas the handout from today's recitation has been posted under Recitation Notes.

Posted all material from last week

All class material from last week have been posted under Class Notes.

First Assignment Posted

The first assignment (on Python) has been posted. It is due on January 29th.

Recitation material posted

Recitation material (on Python) that includes setting up Python has been posted.

Lecture notes posted

All lecture notes and handouts have been posted.

Test Assignment Posted

The test assignment (assignment #0) has been posted.

Web site for Spring 2017 semester is live

The web site for the Spring 2017 semester is now live at http://cs1656.org