You should have completed portfolio assignment 03
How do you create and manipulate common data structures in Python?
What is a module? What is a package?
What are some simple ways of manipulating text output?
How do you read and write files in Python?
What is pickle?
Assigment: portfolio assignment 04
You should have completed portfolio assignment 02
How do you use Subversion and Python?
(Due to time, these lecture topics will be condensed in the following lecture)
What is Python good for and why do we care?
What are some fundamental Python syntax constructs?
How are strings represented in Python?
What are the main Python flow control statements?
How do you define a function in Python?
How do you create lambda expressions in Python?
Assigment: portfolio assignment 03
You should have installed svn and python, and read DM ch 1
Where does Data Mining fit in the big picture of "Knowledge Discovery?"
What are the main categories of Data Mining strategies?
Assigment: portfolio assignment 02
You should have skimmed the table of contents and the entire contents of DM and CI
Semester overview.
What is data mining?
Why does data mining even exist? What's the point?
Assigment: read DM through ch 1, portfolio assignment 01