Educational Data Mining and Applications, Fall 2025

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Course Information

• Instructor: Jenq-Haur Wang
• E-mail: mailbox at the domain of our university, and my username is jhwang
• Office: R1534, Technology Building (ext. 4238)
• Office Hours: Tue. and Fri. 9:10-12:00am
• Class Hours: Tue. 13:10-15:00pm, Thu. 10:10-11:00am, R301, Third Teaching Building
• TA: Miss Chung (R1424, Technology Building)
  E-mail: (TBA)
• Prerequisite: data structures (and algorithms), database systems, discrete math (probability), operating systems, and working experience of high-level programming languages
• Textbook: (Selected chapters)
  • Jiawei Han, Jian Pei, and Hanghang Tong, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 4th ed., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Oct. 2022. ([DM4])
• References:
  • Tom White, Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, 4th ed., O'Reilly Media, 2015.
  • Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer, Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2010.
  • Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey David Ullman, Mining of Massive Datasets, 3rd Edition, Cambridge University Press, Feb. 2020.
  • Jules S. Damji, Brooke Wenig, Tathagata Das, Denny Lee, Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Big Data Analysis, 2nd ed., O'Reilly Media, Jul. 2020.
  • Others: online documents (Hadoop, Spark), tutorials, and selected academic papers.

Latest News

• Nov. 21, 2025: Please note that our class on Nov. 25, 2025 has to be cancelled since the time when I return will be late that day.
• Nov. 13, 2025: Since there are not as many teams as expected, our term project presentation will be the last three weeks of this semester. Is starts on Dec. 23, 2025 (Tue.).
• Oct. 13, 2025: [NOTE] HW#2 has been announced.
• Sep. 30, 2025: [NOTE] HW#1 has been announced.
• Aug. 14, 2025: The homepage for Educational Data Mining and Applications (Fall 2025) has been setup.

(Tentative) Schedule

Programming Assignments and Projects

Submission Instructions

If you cannot successfully submit your work, please contact with the TA and the instructor.

Homeworks

1. HW#1 : Ch.2 Data, Measurements, and Data Preprocessing [DM4]
   Due: Oct. 14, 2025.
2. HW#2 : Ch.4 Pattern Mining: Basic Concepts and Methods [DM4]
   Due: Oct. 28, 2025.
3. HW#3 : Ch.6-7 Classification [DM4]
   Due: Nov. 25, 2025.
4. HW#4: Ch. 8 Clustering [DM4]

Projects

1. Term Project

   Item	Description	Time
   Proposal	You are required to submit a proposal for term project one week after midterm exam.	Nov. 11, 2025 (Tue.)
   Topics	Two options: Project for data analysis or related system development Joining competitions as your term project. You can check the details of recent competitions as potential topics for term project.
   Schedule	Due to our time limits, we have to start the term project presentation as early as Dec. 23, 2025 (Tue.). * [NOTE] All presentations *must* be finished within the scheduled time slots, which will be the last 3 weeks in this semester. No other time slots will be avbailable.	Dec. 23, 30, 2025 & Jan. 6, 8, 2026
   Report	Each team is *required* to upload the final report after finishing your presentation. The final report should contain at least the following: presentation slides, and source code, and documents containing installation/execution instructions, team members and task responsibility	Jan. 9, 2026 (Fri.)

Exams

1. Midterm Exam: Nov. 3-7, 2025
   
   • Date: Nov. 4, 2025 (Tue.)
   • Time: 13:10-15:00pm
   • Location: R301, Third Teaching Building
   • Range: Ch. 1-2, 4-7 (TBD)
2. Final Exam: Jan. 5-9, 2026
   
   • Note: There will be no final exam in this course. Instead, you are required to finish a term project for system development or competition.

Scores