1. Association Rules Plan for this week Progress report Midterm review In class Minute paper

2. Plan for this week Monday –Large Itemsets, support, confidence, association rule problem –Motivation for association rule mining algorithms, introduction to design concept of Apriori-gen function Wednesday –Apriori algorithm and additional association rule mining algorithms –Basic algorithms summary

3. Midterm Review Day Midterm exam – March 29 Midterm review – March 24 Contribution of Midterm Exam problems –Each student posts one possible problem with solution at web site by March 26 (as part of HW week 8) –A subset of the contribution will be used with possible modification as part of the midterm exam problems.

4. Progress Report Due 3/24 Research paper selection Term Project proposal Web posting at your course website

5. Speaker on 3/22 MS student Project presentation –“Oracle Data warehousing for Real Estate Multiple Listing Service Data” by Wuri Wedyawati A & Q on your term project proposal

6. In class Minute paper Support and confidence – for each following question, provide an example of an association rule from the market basket domain that satisfies the given conditions. Also, describe whether such rules are interesting. State your reason clearly.

7. Minute paper (cont) A rule that has high support and high confidence. A rule that has reasonable high support but low confidence. A rule that has low support and low confidence. A rule that has low support and high confidence.