Statistical Data Mining
IT 871/CSI 709

Fall Semester 2008

• Bibliography (pdf)
• Instructions for Using CrystalVision (pdf)
• Course Lecture 1 (pdf) See Chapter 1 in Rao Wegman Solka (RWS)
• Course Lecture 2 (pdf) See Chapter 1 in RWS
• Course Lecture 3 (pdf) See Chapter 1 in RWS
• Course Lecture 4 (pdf)
  • Gender Difference in Color Perception
• Course Lecture 5 (pdf) See Chapters 1, 14, 16 and 17 in RWS. Papers 2, 4, 5, 9, 14, 15
• Course Lecture 6 (pdf) See Chapter 9 in RWS and also papers 5 and 8.
• Course Lecture 6a (pdf)
• Course Lecture 7 (pdf) See Chapters 8, 10 and 13 in RWS and paper 19.
• Course Lecture 8 (pdf) See Chapter 12 in RWS
• Course Lecture 9 (pdf) See Dr. Said's Dissertation
• Course Lecture 10 (pdf) See Chapter 11 in RWS.
• Course Lecture 11 (pdf) See paper 8.
• Course Lecture 12 (pdf) See Chapter 12 in RWS and also paper 8.
• Course Lecture 13 (pdf) See Chapter 3 in RWS and also papers 10, 11, 12, and 13.
• Course Lecture 14 (pdf) See Chapters 4 and 5 in RWS and also papers 17 and 18.
• Course Lecture 15 (pdf) See Chapters 4 and 5 in RWS and also papers 14, 15, 17, and 18.

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The lecture notes are Adobe pdf documents and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader version 6.0 or later, which may be obtained free from Adobe.

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• Notes from 1996 Data Mining Course
• Crystal Vision Software
• Datasets are available from a number of sources
  • Dr. Wegman's Data Sets (zip, CrystalVision format)
  • Dr. Said's OSAS Treatment Data (MS Access Format)
  • Dr. Said's Zip Code and Corredponding Subcensus Track Data (MS Excel Format)
  • Data and Software from StatLib at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Statistical Reference Datasets from NIST
  • Data Mining Archive at University of California, Irvine
• Some Papers of Dr. Wegman
  1. Hyperdimensional Data Analysis Using Parallel Coordinates
  2. Statistical Data Mining (pdf)
  3. Visual Data Mining (pdf)
  4. Data Compression by Geometric Quantization (pdf)
  5. On Some Generalizations of Parallel Coordinates Plots (pdf)
  6. On Some Mathematics for Visualizing High Dimensional Data (pdf)
  7. Data Mining Strategies for the Detection of Chemical Warfare Agents (pdf)
  8. On Some of Computer Graphics for Visualizing Densities (pdf)
  9. Smoothing, Ridges, and Bumps (pdf)
  10. Visualizing Cereal World (pdf)
  11. Man vs. Machine - A Study of the Ability of Statistical Methodologies to Discern Human Generated ssh Traffic from Machine Generated scp Traffic (pdf)
  12. On Some Techniques for Streaming Data: A Case Study of Internet Packet Headers (pdf)
  13. Statistical Analysis of Network Data for Cybersecurity (pdf)
  14. Visualizing "Typical" and "Exotic" Internet Traffic Data (pdf)
  15. Pixel Tours (pdf)
  16. New Applications of the Image Grand Tour (pdf)
  17. A Fast Algorithm for Approximating the Dominating Set of a Class Cover Catch Digraph (pdf)
  18. A Text Stream Transformation for Semantic-Based Clustering (pdf)
  19. Text Data Mining with Minimal Spanning Trees (pdf)
  20. Visual Clustering and Classification: The Oronsay Particle Size Data Set Revisited (html)
  21. On Some Statistical Methods for Parallel Computation (pdf)
  22. Modeling Continuous Time Series Driven by Fractional Gaussian Noise (pdf)
• Some Papers of Dr. Said
  1. Agent-Based Simulation of Ecological Alcohol Systems (dissertation, pdf)
  2. On Genetic Algorithms and their Applications (pdf)
  3. Data Mining in Electronic Commerce (pdf)
  4. New Issues in Human Rights Statistics (pdf)