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    <title>Lecture 1 – Introduction to MapReduce</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Overview Focus on large-scale computing for data mining. Challenges: How to distribute computation efficiently. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:46:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Lecture 2 - Frequent Itemset Mining and Association Rules</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Key Concepts Goal: Find relationships among items frequently purchased together. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:46:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Lecture 3 - Improving Frequent Itemset Mining</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Motivation A-Priori reduces pairs, but scanning disk multiple times is costly. Improve efficiency using better memory utilization and hashing. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:46:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Lecture 4 - Finding Similar Items</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Goal Identify items or documents that are similar in high-dimensional space. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:46:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Lecture 5 - Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) and Distance Metrics</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Motivation After Min-Hash compression, still too expensive to compare every pair. LSH identifies likely similar pairs efficiently. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:46:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Lecture 6 - Clustering</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Overview Group similar data points into clusters. Goal: maximize intra-cluster similarity, minimize inter-cluster similarity. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:46:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Lecture 7 - Large-Scale Machine Learning</title>
    <link>https://qzrx9m4k2v7n1p8-notes.pages.dev/COMP-4250/Lecture-7---Large-Scale-Machine-Learning</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Learning Types Unsupervised No predefined labels. Goal: find structure (e.g., clustering). Supervised Data labeled with correct outputs. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:46:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Chapter 11 - Unemployment</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ This chapter examines how employment and unemployment are measured, the dynamics of the labour market, the three types of unemployment, and the economic and social costs of joblessness. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:46:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Chapter 12 - Measuring Inflation</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ This chapter covers how to measure inflation, different price indices, adjusting for inflation effects, and the role of money in the economy. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:46:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Chapter 13 - Consumption and Saving</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ This chapter explores the relationship between consumption, saving, and income, applying core economic principles to understand consumer behavior at both micro and macro levels. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:46:57 GMT</pubDate>
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