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MSBA 511: Data Mining for Business Analytics

University of San Diego, Spring 2026

Canvas Gradescope Course Repo Student Hours

D. Chris Young Profile
Chris Young, MBA
Adjunct Faculty

Course Calendar

Week 1
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 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
Mon, Mar 09 EXAM Exam_1
Week 8
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
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
Mon, Apr 27 LECT Text_Mining
Sun, May 03 HMWK HW5_Text_Mining
Week 13
Mon, May 04 LAB Hackathon
Sun, May 10 PROJ GP2_Project_Modeling
Week 14
Mon, May 11 PROJ GP3_Project_Presentation
Week 15
Mon, May 18 EXAM Exam_2