- Mondays: lecture, where the new theory is presented (with occasional paper-based exercises)
- Tuesdays: practicum, where the theory is put into practice (hands-on, working individually)
- Wednesdays: lab, dedicated time to working on the obligatory assignments (working in teams)
- Practicums (Tue) and labs (Wed) are computer-based
- Bring your own laptop!
- Wednesdays are dedicated to working on the assignments. This is the time for asking technical questions and getting help.
- Over email: [email protected]
- Should you get an answer, and have further inquiries, please keep [email protected] among the receivers (e.g., by responding to all).
- Before/after the lectures and in the breaks
- No drop-ins unannounced! Make an appointment in email!
- There are three obligatory assignments throughout the semester
- Binary assessment (approved or not)
- All 3 must be approved to be allowed to take the exam
- Work in teams of 2-3
- It's OK to work alone (it'll be a lot of work!)
- Can change teams for each assignment
- Weekly checkpoints
- Hard deadlines
- No extensions, no exceptions
- The best performing teams may be rewarded with extra points for the exam
- Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice (Croft, Metzler, Strohman), Pearson, 2010.
- Free download from http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/irbook/
- Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
- Introduction to Data Mining
(Tan, Steinbach, Kumar), Pearson, 2006.
- Chapters: 1-5, 8
- Digital exam
- Open-book, all printed/written material is allowed
- Exam date: TBA