Assignments in Data Mining I - 1DL360

Fall 2011

Assignment 1: Thanh Truong
Office hours: Monday and Friday 13:15 -15:00
Assignment 2: Lars Melander, Sobhan Badiozamany
Office hours: Lars Wed 13:15 - 15:00, Sobhan Tuesday 10:15 - 12:00
Assignment 3: Andrej Andrejev
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 13:15 - 15:00

Here follows links to tools used in the assignments and instructions to install and configure them.

In subsequent sections the following references hold:

[Lab] indicates that the following instruction should be applied when logged in at the computer in the computer lab room at the university.

[Home] indicates that the following instruction should be applied at home with your own computer.

[Lab] At computer lab rooms: H:\DataMining
Because data on H:\ is auto synchronized, you can access and work on this folder at any Windows computers in the campus. You also can access your files via Studentportalen - My Files
[Home] Your own computer: C:\DataMining

Amos II tutorial [ slides + script + data ].
Download Amos II for Windows and unzip it into DataMining directory. amos2.exe should be located in "H:\DataMining\amos2\bin\".
Note: After you have installed Xemacs and updated init.el, the path to amos2 is set when Xemacs is started. init.el contains a code snippet that sets the PATH variable.
Amos II User's Manual. The section about vectors is important for Data Mining.

A good text editor that is customizable for Amos II.
[Lab] It is pre-installed in all computers in labs.
[Home] Download and install Xemacs [ Xemacs ].
Customize Xemacs for Amos II
- Start Xemacs :
  - [Lab] Start - All programs - Students - Xemacs
  - [Home]
- Go to Options - Edit Init File . If the file does not exist, click Yes
- Overwrite the content of init.el file by [Lab] init_lab.el or [Home] init_home.el
- Save and Exit.
It is often very practical to run programs under the xemacs shell as it provides full editing and logging facilities for shell commands and program interactions.
- Ctrl-x 2 splits the window into two windows(buffers) vertically, Ctrl-x 3 splits horizontally. One windows is for script, the other is interactive shell.
- Press Alt-x and type "shell" to start Xemacs shell.
- To copy code to the shell, place the cursor at the beginning of a function and press F2.

Download AmosMiner [ AmosMiner ] and unzip it into DataMining directory
Start Xemacs's shell : Alt-x shell
If you have followed "Working directory", "Amos", and "Xemacs" 's instructions correctly, you will be at [Lab] H:\DataMining\AmosMiner or [Home] C:\DataMining\AmosMiner.

Otherwise, please go back and check the instructions again. Make a database image by running: install.cmd
Run the system with : amosMiner.cmd
Make your own scripts extending and modifying the system and load it into amosMiner : e.g. < 'a1.osql';
Follow exercise specific instructions

Important information about examination of assignments [ DOC | PDF ]

Instructions [ PDF ]
Tutorial slides [ PDF ] See also the lecture notes on Chapter 4.
Lab (optional, but highly recommended):
Answer form: [ DOC ][ PDF ] Answer the questions and bring the form to the examination.
Examination (mandatory): Sep 20th 8:00-12.00 and Sep 21st 13:15-17:00 in P1345. Sign up outside P1346.

Instructions [ PDF ]
Tutorial slides [ PDF ] See also the lecture notes on Chapter 8 & 9 and the PCA talk.
Lab (optional, but highly recommended): Sign up outside P1346.
Answer form: [ PDF ] Answer the questions and bring the form to the examination.
Examination (mandatory): The examination is scheduled for 26 September.
Location is P1345. Sign up sheets will be available outside P1346.
Related articles:
1. [ PS | PDF ] A Density-based Algorithm for Discovering Clusters in Large Spatial Databases with Noise. Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Jörg Sander, and Xiaowei Xu. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pages 226-231, 1996.

Instructions [ PDF ]
Tutorial slides [ PDF ] See also the lecture notes on Chapter 6 & 7.
Answer form: [ PDF ] Answer the questions and bring the form to the examination.
Examination (mandatory): The examination is scheduled for October 5 and 6. Sign up outside P1346.

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