I'm watching a lecture on statistical aspects of data mining given by a Goolge employee lecturing at Stanford. Some of it is supposed to be relevant to Association Analysis. A sad thing about video is that it's difficult to skip to the parts you need. Skimming is more difficult than with text at present :)
I wish the lectures at the University of Guelph were also available on-line. I would rather be paying almost solely for certification than for access to the knowledge. Is sitting in on classes you're not registered in a theft of intellectual property? What if you're not even a student? What if you're not a citizen of Canada? Does it matter whether a university is public or private?
Well, I feel that lectures can move on-line quite easily and will. It'll be much less expensive than paying lecturers at every university to be present. Instead, a few good lecturers will be hired to be recorded. There'll be greater quality control. Perhaps competing lecturers could produce their own series of lectures and sell them, meeting some curriculum requirements. Cheaper video lectures, fancier video lectures, all "guaranteed" to fulfill course requirements. Standardised exams. The worst aspect is the loss of diversity of course. Oh, what a tremendous loss, too! As my girlfriend suggests, have personalised lectures. "Data Structures by Xining Li" and people could subscribe to certain course approachs. That would be nice. Yup, the future, recorded here for your edification.
The video claims association analysis will be covered the week they look at chapter 6, which concerns it. The textbook is by a few fellows and Kumar. I think I saw that textbook available on-line (legitimately). I suppose I'll investigate.
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