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| Week | Date | Topic | Notes |
| 1 | 01-13 | Class cancelled (instructor is sick) | |
| 2 | 01-18 | Introduction (Jun) | PDF |
| 01-20 | Two overview papers (Jun) | PDF |
| 3 | 01-25 | News and data (Rosemary and Nikhil) | PDF |
| 01-27 | Checking and finding facts (Jun) | PDF |
| 4 | 02-01 | Guest lecture by Sarah Cohen | PDF |
| 02-03 | Survey of other projects (everybody) |
PDF (Rohit)
PDF (Nikhil)
PDF (Andrea)
PDF (Will)
PDF (Yunjia)
|
| 5 | 02-08 | Survey of other projects (everybody) |
PDF (Wuzhou)
PDF (David)
PDF (Mohammad)
PDF (Rozemary)
PDF (Yuqian)
|
| 02-10 | Guest lecture by Hye-chung Kum | PDF |
| 6 | 02-15 | Collaborative query formulation (Jun) | PDF |
| 02-17 | Project discussion (everybody) | PDF |
| 7 | 02-22 | Project discussion (everybody) | N/A |
| 02-24 | Crowdsourcing (Yunjia and Mohammad) | PDF |
| 8 | 02-29 | Information extraction (Rohit and Will) | PDF |
| 03-02 | Information extraction (Rohit and Will) | see above |
| 9 | 03-07 | Spring recess | |
| 03-09 | Spring recess | |
| 10 | 03-14 | Crowdsourcing and querying (Jun) | PDF |
| 03-16 | Crowd analytics (Andrea and Yuqian) | PDF |
| 11 | 03-21 | Database usability (Nikhil and Rozemary) | PDF |
| 03-23 | Understanding database query results (Dave and Will) | PDF |
| 12 | 03-28 | Social information processing (Mohammad and Andrea) | PDF |
| 03-30 | Query recommendation (Wuzhou and Dave) | PDF PDF |
| 13 | 04-04 | Project update (everybody) | |
| 04-06 | Project update presentations (everybody) | |
| 14 | 04-11 | Natural language querying (Yunjia and Rohit) | PDF PDF |
| 04-13 | Survey on natural language querying (Jun) | PDF |
| 15 | 04-18 | Anomaly detection (Yuqian and Wuzhou) | PDF |
| 04-20 | Project discussion (everybody) | |
| 16 | 04-25 | Reading period | |
| 04-27 | Reading period | |
| 17 | 05-01 | Final (no exam): 7-10pm | |