Data Mining Workshop Opportunity

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UM BRIDGES is pleased to offer openings in our data mining workshop. This workshop is open to all UM graduate students and faculty. Space is limited to 20 seats on a first response basis. No previous programming/data mining experience is necessary.

Data Mining: the process of applying intelligent methods to extract data patterns; analysis for knowledge discovery from databases.

 If you are interested in attending, please fill out this Google Form. You will receive a response with location details as seats are available.

 Details

When: Mondays, February 26 and March 5, 4:30-9:00 pm

Who: Dr. Robert Smith, Department of Computer Sciences

What: FREE mini-workshop in data mining basics

 Topics Covered

What is data mining?

WEKA basics

Model creation algorithms – high level

Understanding evaluation metrics

Data preparation

Feature Selection

Algorithms and parameter selection

Includes WEKA practicums