Course Schedule
HUDK4050: Core Methods in Educational Data Mining
Fall 2014
Professor Ryan Baker


Wednesday, September 3

NO CLASS TODAY; FIRST CLASS IS FOLLOWING MONDAY

Monday, September 8: Introduction

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: NONE

Wednesday, September 10: CLASS CANCELED DUE TO INSTRUCTOR ILLNESS



Monday, September 15: Regression in Prediction

1pm-2:40pm

Readings Class Data Set: [csv]
Class Code: [RapidMiner xml 1] [RapidMiner xml 2]

Slides: [pptx]

Assignments Due: NONE

Wednesday, September 17: Classification Algorithms

1pm-2:40pm

Readings Slides: [pptx]

Assignments Due: Basic: Classifier

Monday, September 22: Behavior Detection

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Creative: Behavior Detection

Wednesday, September 24: Diagnostic Metrics

1pm-2:40pm

Readings Slides: [pptx]

Assignments Due: Basic: Metrics

Monday, September 29: No Class


Wednesday, October 1: No Class


Monday, October 6: Feature Engineering and Distillation-- What

1pm-2:40pm

Readings Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: NONE

Wednesday, October 8: Feature Engineering and Distillation - How

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Creative: Feature Engineering

Monday, October 13: Advanced Detector Evaluation and Validation

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: NONE

Wednesday, October 15: Bayesian Knowledge Tracing

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Class Data Set: [xlsx]
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Basic: BKT

Monday, October 20: No Class


Wednesday, October 22: No Class


Monday, October 27: Performance Factors Analysis

1pm-2:40pm

Readings Slides: [pptx]

Assignments Due: Basic: PFA

Wednesday, October 29: Advanced BKT

1pm-2:40pm

Readings Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: NONE

Monday, November 3: Knowledge Structure Discovery

1pm-2:40pm

Readings Class Data Set: [xlsx]
Slides: [pptx]

Assignments Due: Creative: Knowledge Structure

Wednesday, November 5: Network Analysis

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]

Assignments Due: Basic: SNA

Monday, November 10: No Class


Wednesday, November 12: Correlation Mining and Causal Mining

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Basic: Correlation Mining

Monday, November 17: No Class


Wednesday, November 19: No Class


Monday, November 24: Discovery with Models

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Slides: To be posted
Assignments Due: NONE

Wednesday, November 26: No Class


Monday, December 1: Clustering and Factor Analysis

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Basic: Clustering

Wednesday, December 3: Association Rule Mining

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: None

Monday, December 8: Sequential Pattern Mining

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Slides: [pptx]
Assignments Due: Basic: Sequential Pattern Mining #1

Wednesday, December 10: Text Mining

1pm-2:40pm

Readings


Slides: [pptx]

Assignments Due: Creative: Sequential Pattern Mining #2

Monday, December 15: Visualization of Educational Data

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Assignments Due: Creative: Visualization

Wednesday, December 17: The World Is Changing

1pm-2:40pm

Readings
Assignments Due: Creative: Final Presentation [REQUIRED]