Courses

The deadline for registration to the online data-mining course jointly offered by IDSIA (http://www.idsia.ch) and SUPSI (http://www.supsi.ch) is approaching.

Course Contents --------------- The course is intended for beginners. It will introduce data mining techniques with special focus on pattern classification. The lectures will emphasize the practice of data mining by a step-by-step introduction to the Weka system (http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/).

Structure --------- The course will be organized in 8 weekly modules, given online through a web site. Each unit will include theory, practice, online discussion with teachers and other students, and a number of exercises to be done individually and in groups. The course will be accessible in an asynchronous way, i.e. in the hours that best suit the participants' availability.

Important Dates
Deadline for early registration: March, 15, 2002. Deadline for late registration: March, 31, 2002. Course starts on Monday, April 15, 2002.

More details
Details on the topics to be covered, who should attend, cost, etc., can be found at virtualcampus.supsi.ch/data-mining