Data Mining and Machine Learning DMML

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Data Mining and Machine Learning (DMML)
Group Members (Left to Right, Back row first)
Shankara Subramanya (Amazon.com), Magdiel Galan,
Payam Refaeilzadeh (Microsoft), Lei Tang, Jian
Yang, Sai Moturu, Nitin Agarwal , Huan Liu, Zheng
Zhao, Lance Parsons (ASU), Niyati Parikh (Google
Research) (taken Spring 2006), Steve Day, Som
Shahapurkar
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Current Research Projects
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Mining in Blogosphere
Identifying Influential Bloggers
Connecting Similar Bloggers
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Health Informatics
Personal Health Records Health Social
Networks Medical Blogs Health Wikis User-gene
rated content Collective Intelligence Individual
Experience Knowledge
H High-cost patients L Lower-cost patients
Health 2.0
Patient data
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Prediction model
Insight
Feature Selection
How does a user know if this information is
trustworthy?
Learning
Data
High risk?
Probable reasons
Predictive Risk Modeling
Trust Evaluation for Health 2.0
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Accomplishments
Nitin Agarwal presented Identifying the
Influential Bloggers at WSDM 2008. Received
highest number of views among all the
presentations http//videolectures.net/wsdm08_agar
wal_iib/
Zhao Zheng (Alan) received Outstanding PhD
Student in CSE award in 2008
Sai Moturu received Best Student Paper Award at
HEALTHINF 2008 http//www.healthinf.org/Healthinf2
008/awards.htm
Our work is published in KDD, ICWE, EMBC, WSDM,
SDM, IJCAI, ICDM, PAKDD, SIGKDD, TKDD, TKDE,
JMLR, DMKD, Check us out at Google Scholar
The former students are now professors in
research universities, employed by high-tech IT
companies (Google, Honeywell, Microsoft, and
Yahoo, Amazon, among others) , and
entrepreneurs/consultants. 
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Further Information

• Huan Liu (http//www.public.asu.edu/huanliu/)
• Our Wiki (http//wiki.asu.edu/dmml)
• Our Mailing List (dmml_at_yahoogroups.com)
• This poster can be found at http//www.public.asu.
  edu/huanliu/students.htm
• In Fall 2008, offering
• CSE 494/598 Social Computing and Web Analytics
  http//www.public.asu.edu/huanliu/SC08F/cse494-59
  8.htm
• Prepared by Nitin, Sai, and Huan