MSBA 511: Data Mining for Business Analytics
University of San Diego, Spring 2026
Canvas Gradescope Course Repo Student Hours
Chris Young, MBA
Adjunct Faculty
Course Calendar
| Week 1 | ||
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| Mon, Jan 26 | LECT | Introduction Association_Rules |
| Sun, Feb 01 | HMWK | HW1_Association_Rules |
| Week 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mon, Feb 02 | LECT | Cluster_Analysis |
| Mon, Feb 02 | DEMO | Cluster_Analysis_Demo |
| Mon, Feb 02 | PART | CP1_Cluster_Analysis |
| Sun, Feb 08 | PROG | PA1_Wine_Customer_Segmentation |
| Week 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mon, Feb 09 | LECT | k_Nearest_Neighbors |
| Mon, Feb 09 | PART | CP2_k_Nearest_Neighbors |
| Week 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mon, Feb 16 | LECT | Collaborative_Filtering |
| Mon, Feb 16 | DEMO | Assoc_Rules_Collab_Filtering_Demo |
| Sun, Feb 22 | PROG | PA2_Instacart_Recommendations |
| Week 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mon, Feb 23 | LECT | Decision_Trees |
| Mon, Feb 23 | DEMO | Decision_Trees_Tutorial |
| Sun, Mar 01 | HMWK | HW2_Decision_Trees |
| Week 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mon, Mar 02 | LECT | Evaluating_Classifiers |
| Mon, Mar 02 | LECT | Exam_1_Review |
| Mon, Mar 02 | PART | CP3_Evaluating_Classifiers |
| Week 7 | ||
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| Mon, Mar 09 | EXAM | Exam_1 |
| Week 8 | ||
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| Mon, Mar 16 | LECT | Naive_Bayes |
| Sun, Mar 22 | PROG | PA3_Coffee_Customer_Classification |
| Sun, Mar 22 | HMWK | HW3_Naive_Bayes |
| Week 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mon, Mar 23 | LECT | Logistic_Regression |
| Sun, Mar 29 | HMWK | HW4_Logistic_Regression |
| Spring / Easter Break | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mon, Mar 30 | NO | No Class |
| Mon, Apr 06 | NO | No Class |
| Week 10 | ||
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| Mon, Apr 13 | LECT | Ensembles |
| Mon, Apr 13 | PART | CP4_Ensembles |
| Sun, Apr 19 | PROG | PA4_Credit_Card_Attrition |
| Week 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mon, Apr 20 | LECT | Experiments_Uplift_Modeling |
| Mon, Apr 20 | PART | CP5_Experiments |
| Sun, Apr 26 | PROJ | GP1_Project_Proposal |
| Week 12 | ||
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| Mon, Apr 27 | LECT | Text_Mining |
| Sun, May 03 | HMWK | HW5_Text_Mining |
| Week 13 | ||
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| Mon, May 04 | LAB | Hackathon |
| Sun, May 10 | PROJ | GP2_Project_Modeling |
| Week 14 | ||
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| Mon, May 11 | PROJ | GP3_Project_Presentation |
| Week 15 | ||
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| Mon, May 18 | EXAM | Exam_2 |