Web Mining 2009-2010
Mauro Brunato, Roberto Battiti
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First assignment: Data collection and plotting
| Assigned: | 2010-02-25
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| Due: | 2010-03-01, 10:00am
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| What to hand in: | URL to the material.
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The purpose of this assignment is to assess common capabilities: collect numeric data, organize them in a specified tabular form according
to a program's requirements, use a graphing program to plot interesting features of the collected dataset.
Instructions
- Download and install the Grapheur software:
- connect to grapheur.com;
- register with your student email (...@studenti.unitn.it);
- download a free evaluation copy;
- install it.
- Identify an interesting data collection
(e.g. the UCI Machine Learning Repository).
- Prepare the data as a Comma-separated-values (CSV) file according to the Grapheur user's manual.
- Obtain a plot that describes some feature of the data and export an image.
- Write a web page with a short explanation, links to the CSV dataset and to the original source
and showing the picture that you created.
Please use this template.
- Send an email to Umut Avci (subject: [webmining] Assignment 1)
containing your name, matricola number and URL for seeing the web page.
Some examples of the expected outcome can be found in the case studies collected
in this page.
Please use this template to provide your web page.
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