| Day | Topic (tentative) | Due date (FIRM) | |
| 1 | 15-Jan | Introduction | |
| 17-Jan | Project overview | ||
| 2 | 22-Jan | B-trees and hashing | |
| 24-Jan | k-d trees and variants | (hw1 out) | |
| 3 | 29-Jan | Grid files, z-ordering | |
| 31-Jan | R-trees and variants | ||
| 4 | 5-Feb | Fractals | hw1 due |
| 7-Feb | Text retrieval | ||
| 5 | 12-Feb | clustering | |
| 14-Feb | text filtering: LSI/SVD | project proposals due | |
| 6 | 19-Feb | Multimedia db - intro | |
| 21-Feb | Review lecture | ||
| 7 | 26-Feb | MIDTERM | MIDTERM |
| 28-Feb | DSP tools (DFT/DWT) | ||
| 8 | 5-Mar | image databases | (hw2 out) |
| 7-Mar | JPEG; fractal compression | ||
| 9 | 12-Mar | MPEG | |
| 14-Mar | Medical Image db - FastMap | hw2 due | |
| 10 | 19-Mar | relevance feedback | |
| 21-Mar | Subpattern matching | ||
| 11 | 26-Mar | privacy issues | |
| 28-Mar | condensed representations | progress reports due | |
| 12 | 2-Apr | SPRING BREAK | |
| 4-Apr | SPRING BREAK | ||
| 13 | 9-Apr | Data mining - statistics | (hw3 out) |
| 11-Apr | Review of classif. trees | ||
| 14 | 16-Apr | Data bases + DM: OLAP | |
| 18-Apr | Data warehousing | hw3 due | |
| 15 | 23-Apr | Association rules - intro | |
| 25-Apr | Association rules - variations | ||
| 16 | 30-Apr | Temporal/spatial data mining | |
| 2-May | Review lecture | Final reports due |