CS11944 – Spring 2017 Introduction to Data Mining Course Introduction Today: • What is this course about? • Course Logistics. Data Mining & Machine Learning are Everywhere! Data Mining & Machine Learning are Everywhere! Data Mining & Machine Learning are Everywhere! Data Mining & Machine Learning are Everywhere! Data Mining & Machine Learning are Everywhere! In all of these applications … Data is The Hero! “More data usually beats better algorithms” Data Explosion! • Data is more than doubling every two years. [EMC Corporation - June 28, 2011] Where Does this all come from? • Science – The current NASA Earth observation satellites generate a terabyte every day. [Principles of Data Mining-Bramer] • Internet [www.statisticbrain.com] – More than 50 Million tweets every day. – More than 70 Million Facebook shares every day. • Business? – Wal-Mart, handles more than 1m customer transactions every hour. [www.economist.com/node/15557443] Data Explosion! • What can we do with all of this data? • Data Science is the hot new thing in Tech. [Fortune, September 5, 2011] • The ability to take data - to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it, that is going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades. [Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian, NYT 2009] Machine Learning? • “A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts” (Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft) • “Web ranking today is mostly a matter of machine learning” (Prabhakar Raghavan, Dir. Research, Yahoo) • “Machine learning is going to result in a real revolution” (Greg Papadopoulos, Former CTO, Sun) • “Machine learning today is one of the hottest aspects of computer science” (Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft) What is This Course About? • Techniques for finding Minerals and Jewels in data! (Mining) • Algorithms Vs Math? • White Box Vs Black Box? • Code Vs Psuedo-code? Thanks to Dr. Ibrahim Balawi
