| Week | Date | Topic |
| 1 | 01-08 | No class (CIDR 2009) |
| 2 | 01-13 | Introduction |
| 3 | 01-20 | Data warehousing; association rules |
| 4 | 01-27 | Web indexing, ranking, and spam |
| 5 | 02-03 | Similarity |
| 6 | 02-10 | Clustering |
| 7 | 02-17 | Classification |
| 8 | 02-24 | Paper presentation/discussion |
| 9 | 03-03 | Paper presentation/discussion |
| 10 | 03-10 | No class (Spring recess) |
| 11 | 03-17 | Project proposal presentations |
| 12 | 03-24 | Paper presentation/discussion |
| 13 | 03-31 | No class (ICDE 2009) |
| 14 | 04-07 | Paper presentation/discussion |
| 15 | 04-14 | Paper presentation/discussion |
| 16 | 04-21 | Paper presentation/discussion (class meets despite graduate reading period) |
| 17 | 04-27 | Final project presentations; Monday 2-5pm |
