"Awesome tutorial!! It's just wonderful... playful AND deep! I couldn't stop looking at it, even though I've got other things to do....but it was a well spent hour!" Ben Shneiderman, Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland at College Park.

The notes for my AAAI 2011 tutorial are here.
If you want a copy of my general time series tutorial, including datasets/papers/slides etc. You can download this file, and ask me for the password. Note that this file is huge, over 500meg. If you don’t have that kind of bandwidth, send me your mailing address and I will send you it on CD-Rom. If you just want classification/clustering data, look in the UCR Time Series Classification/Clustering Page instead.
If you want a copy of my SAX time series/Shape tutorial, download this (Warning, about 40 meg in size).

Tutorials presented from 2003 to 2008 were made possible by funding from a NSF Career Award. Tutorials presented from 2009 onwards are made possible by funding from NSF 0803410 and NSF 0808770.

Tutorials

Tutorial in SIAM SDM 2012: How to do Good Research and Get it Published in Top Venues. 28th April 2012.
Tutorial in AAAI 2011: Machine Learning in Time Series Databases (and Everything Is a Time Series!). 7th August 2011.
Tutorial in ICDM 2010: How to do good database/data mining research, and get it published!. 14th December 2010.
Tutorial in ACISS2009: How to do good database/data mining research, and get it published!. 1st December 2009.
Tutorial in ACISS2009: Mining Massive Collections of Shapes and Time Series: With Case Studies in Anthropology. 1st December 2009.
Tutorial in SIGKDD 2009: How to do good research, get it published in SIGKDD and get it cited! June 28th. 2009 (email me if you want the slides)
- How to do Good Research was excellent. Invite him back in a few years. (comment sent to tutorial organizer, Dr Chandrika Kamath
- Simple yet brilliant advice.... Clayton Miller, ETH Zurich
- I read your awesome SIGKDD'09 tutorial. I found out many interesting tips. From time to time, I read it again. Especially, before submitting a paper. Dr. Marc Plantevit.
- I have to admit that I already started to apply what were written in your slide and it works ... Yonanda A.
- I happened to attend your ICDM'10 tutorial on how to write good papers (a great experience), and two of the things.. Dr. Jan Vahrenhold
- all those tutorials and..well..what can I say..they are really very impressive! Pelin Ozbozkurt.
- For guidance on writing the final report, see Eamonn Keogh's KDD'09 Tutorial. Tina Eliassi-Rad
- Great tutorial! I would recommend this tutorial for any starting graduate student in engineering. Matthew Wiley, Ohio University
- (the students in the class) were glued to the slides. Ariella Richardson, Bar-Ilan University
- I just found your tutorial on paper acceptance, and I think it is brilliant. Congratulations! Mandatory reading for all my students :-) Dr. Karin Beker.
- I really enjoyed it and as a young researcher I felt it was very helpful, useful and wonderfully presented. Ariella Richardson
- It captures a level of thought and introspection about science and research that I would like to see more widely in our discipline. Graham Cormode AT&T
- The tutorial is quite long, but informative and entertaining. I recommend (it) to you. William Webber.
- I wish I have read your slides earlier. Very helpful. Lei Tang, Tempe, AZ
- ..it is magnificent. A great contribution for young people in the area. Grigorios Tsoumakas
- I just got great recommendation from a co-worker about your tutorial. Mandis S. Beigi. IBM Watson Research Center
- They're great. I'm assuming you don't mind distribution, and I'm certainly going to give to my students. James Davis UC Santa Cruz.
- It is very useful for the beginners to research. Xin Zhao
- ..found it very interesting... very useful.. Huan Liu
- Very nice slides! It is very useful, especially as I am currently preparing a paper... Ardian Kristanto Poernomo
- I am even grateful for the advice you provide in your SIGKDD tutorial. It makes me felt like i have spent the last years in vain. Sian Lun.
- Excellent stuff! I have forwarded it to my group for serious reading! Naren Ramakrishnan. Virginia Tech
- Very glad I attended your tutorial in KDD2009. It was very informative. Ding Feng. Nokia
- This tutorial is so important, helpful, interesting, beautiful and valuable to me that I have read the tutorial five times. I like this tutorial so much that I am going to recommend it to all my classmates and friends. Suke Li
- ..wonderful presentation in KDD`09.. ...very useful for me. Chang Cheng, HP Labs China
- ..quite helpful for me, my colleagues, and my students. Sang-Wook Kim
- Today I read your tutorial and liked it. It will be in my archives always. Ahmet Yukselturk
- I am using it as a resource in my machine learning class.. Elena Filatova
- an amazing tutorial at SIGKDD. Supheakmungkol Sarin
- I think you did an excellent tutorial! Rafal A. Angryk
- It was my great pleasure to be in the audience during your excellent talk (on how to do research). Boxiang Dong
- Thank you very much for your amazing keynote (on how to do research) at the Ph.D. symposium at SIGMOD. Prashanth Mohan.
- Yesterday, I spent a whole day reading your presentation slides on SIGKDD'09 and checklist for revising a paper. I read them six times in one day. These things are totally awesome! Zhen-zhong Lan
- What a great tutorial! It will be immensely useful for me and my students... Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi
- I have heard many people talking about your KDD-09 tutorial. Everybody highly recommends it to me. I believe it will benefit my further research greatly. Jianqiang Shen
- The tutorial is amazing... Laurimar G. Vendrusculo
- Thank you for your fantastic tutorial on How to do research. I learned a lot from it. Zaw Zaw Htike
- Very nice guidance!!.....Really inspiring. Agung Sutrisno
- ..very inspiring to me personally. Liyue Fan
Tutorial in SDM 2008. Mining Massive Collections of Shapes and Time Series: With Case Studies in Anthropology and Astronomy. April 26th 2008.
Tutorial in SIGKDD 2007. Mining Shape and Time Series Databases with Symbolic Representations. August 12, 2007
Tutorial in DMIN07: Data Mining in Time Series and Multimedia Databases. 27 June 2007
Tutorial in DASFAA 2007, co-authored with Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana. Indexing and Mining Large Time Series Databases. April 9, 2007.
Tutorial in ACM Multimedia 2006. Indexing and Mining large Multimedia Databases. Oct 23 2006.
Tutorial in VLDB 2006. A Decade of Progress in Indexing and Mining Large Time Series Databases. September 14, 2006.
Tutorial IEEE Visualization Conference. Visual Data Mining. Oct 23, 2005
Tutorial in 18th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. Data Mining Large Medical Time Series Databases; June 22, 2005
Tutorial in IEEE ICDM 2004 (Acceptance rate 4 out of 13, per Dr. Kyuseok Shim). Data Mining and Machine Learning in Time Series Databases
Tutorial in SIGKDD 2004 (Acceptance rate 6 out of 29, per Dr. Mihael I-Ankerst). Data Mining and Machine Learning in Time Series Databases
Tutorial in The 2nd IASTED International Conference on INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING. November 17, 2003. Scottsdale, AZ, USA. An Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining.
Tutorial in SBBD 2003 18º SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE BANCO DE DADOS SBBD 2003. October 8th 2003.A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Mining for the Database Community
Tutorial in ECML/PKDD 2003.Data Mining and Machine Learning of Time Series Data..
Tutorial in SBBD 2002 - XVII Brazilian Symposium on Databases. Gramado, Brazil. October 14 - 16, 2002. Time Series Databases
Tutorial in the 10th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Atlanta, Georgia. November 5, 2001.Indexing and Mining Time Series Data
Tutorial in the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. San Jose, California, Nov 29, 2001. Mining and Indexing Time Series Data

Keynotes

Keynote Talk at 21st International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis. Processing Streaming Data on Novel Computing Platforms (how hard can it be?). June 2nd 2012.
Keynote Talk at SIGMOD/PODS Ph.D. Symposium. Getting your Acceptance Rate to 80%: A Checklist for Publishing. May 20th 2012.
Keynote Talk at Berkeley Streaming Workshop. A Trillion here, a Trillion there: Scaling Time Series Data Mining to a Trillion Time Series. May 7th 2012.
Keynote Talk at ICDM 2010 Workshop on Large-scale Analytics for Complex Instrumented Systems.
Keynote Talk at AI'09. December 3rd 2009. Recovering the Past through Computation - AI for Cultural Heritage Problems.
Keynote Talk at International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (with the ACM SIGKDD 2007) August 12, 2007
Keynote Talk at 18th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. August 2007. Why the Lack of Reproducibility is Crippling Research in Data Mining and What You Can Do about It.
Keynote Talk at The Australasian Workshop on Data Mining and Web Intelligence. 21 Jan 2004. The (Symbolic) Future of Data Mining.
Keynote Talk at The 16th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD) October 3, 2005.Recent advances in mining time series data
Keynote Talk at Second International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams. Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams: The Importance of the Right Representation.

Invited Talks (selected)

NASA Ames, Tufts, Harvard, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Monash, IBM. Yorktown, Stanford, University of Maryland, University of Toronto, Queensland Institute of Technology, UC Dublin. Australasian Workshop on Data Mining and Web Intelligence, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, ISCA Technologies, The Aerospace Corporation:, ChevronTexaco, Lawrence Livermore Lab, University of Aberdeen , UCSD AI Research Seminar, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, UCI/USC Pre-neuroscience Joint Symposium.

Comments from Industrial People/ Conference Organizers

Comments from Academics

"Your tutorial was excellent - I would not have minded another 3-5 hours of it. You should consider a full day tutorial - you have enough interesting stuff for sure". Sven F. Crone, Tutorial Chair for DMIN07
"Thanks for the great show -- I spoke to several people informally and they were very impressed with the polished presentation. I would be glad to write a letter of recommendation for this tutorial at any time". Dr. Dick Bulterman. Tutorial Chair for ACM Multimedia 2006.
“I found your tutorial on Time Series and Machine Learning at SIGKDD very interesting". Dr. Marcos Campos. Manager, Data Mining Technologies Oracle Corporation.
“I thought it was a phenomenal introduction to the material..” Neal J. Rothleder, Ph.D. | Microsoft - CRM Customer Profiling and Analysis.
“…an excellent tutorial… made a convincing case at the right level of detail for a tutorial”. Darren Vengroff. Amazon.com
“It was one of the best seminars I've been to in months.” (2003) and later at SIGKDD07 "I thought that the tutorial was excellent. I look forward to attending more of your presentations in the future. Your talk was the high point of KDD for me" Ian Kaplan, Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.
“The (SIGKDD tutorial) content is informative, technical and interesting, and lots of fun to read”. Raymond Tsang: Copperleaf Consulting Group
“Dear Dr. Keogh, the following remarks about your tutorial were gathered by our feedback questionnaire: ‘Best tutorial I have been to during the last few years’, ‘Congratulations to Keogh, well presented’, ‘I found this very informative’ .” Carrie Manchuk, Conference Manager. Iasted.
“I remember that many participants were very enthusiastic about your tutorial!”. Dr. Stefan Kramer, Tutorial Chair for ECML/PKDD 2003.
“…yours is the most popular of all tutorials and workshops! It had 95 people "signed up" last time I looked (a few days ago). This is more than 1 in 7 of all attendees!”. Dr. Marina Meila. SIGKDD 2004 Registration Chair.
“ (I) was very impressed by your tutorial at KDD-04 on time series - great work!… … quite a few people who have attended your KDD-04 tutorial told me it was great!” Dr. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro. Editor, KDnuggets.com
“Some people registered (for IEEE ICDM) just for your tutorial!”. Dr. Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund. Program Committee Chair ICDM 2004.
“Thanks again for the tutorial, it was one of the highlights of the conference”. Dr. Padraig Cunningham. Chair of CBMS2005
“Your tutorial session on InfoVis 2005 conference was great!”. Dr. Jin Chen Pennsylvania State University.
“…very interesting tutorial”. Dr. Petra Neumann. Interactions Lab. University of Calgary
“Thanks for the wonderful tutorial!”. Patricia Crossno. Sandia National Laboratories
“… excellent tutorial concerning temporal mining ...”. Dr. Margaret H. Dunham, in her book, Data Mining Introductory and Advanced Topics. pp 273
"I am an admirer of your tutorials... Again, I am a big fan, so I am more than happy to give you and your coauthors all of the credit and praise…" Brenda Wolfe. Product Manager, Forecasting & Econometrics SAS
“I'm interested in using your slides as part of an introduction to machine learning talk for our QA group at Intelligent Results" Rob Jasper, VP Engineering. Intelligent Results
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“Wow! What can I say, but the tutorial is great! Very informative…”. Ben Atkinson, Manager, Software Engineering, Impact Technologies.

“May I use some of your (tutorial slides) in my teaching? They are very nice. I like them very much. In addition to the great technical stuff, the art work is amazing” Dr. Jian Pei Simon Fraser University
“…your tutorials on time series are great”. Dr George Kollios, Boston University
“I have read your tutorial, great work!!”. Dr Paolo Capitani, University of Bologna - Italy
“an excellent overview on Similarity Measures and Dimension Reduction”. Dr. Jun-Lin Lin. Yuan Ze University.
“I read your excellent ECML/PKDD-2003 tutorial concerning "Data Mining and Machine Learning in Time Series Data Bases..". Kari Vasko, University of Helsinki
“Your presentation tutorial on Data Mining and Machine Learning in Time Series Databases was very useful to me” Dr. SeungJin Lim. Utah State University.
“My students and I enjoyed your tutorials very much. They cover the important concepts in an easy to understand and entertaining way.” Dr. Yan Huang, University of North Texas
“Your presentation on ICDM '01-A Tutorial on Indexing and Mining Time Series Data, helped me a lot in understanding time series data mining, they are the clearest slides I had ever seen.” Zengchang Qin, University of Bristol.
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“Thanks very much for the excellent slides…I really enjoyed reading them.. it does help me clear many questions on time series clustering”. Xiaozhe (Catherine) Wang, Grad Student Monash University
“I really enjoyed your tutorial on time series mining and visualization. Besides the very clear presentation and the bright overview, I particularly liked the clear opinions on what to use and what not. It is so easy to spend hours discussing all subtle differences between various methods, while what one really wants are good advice what to use. Thanks!” . Dr. Jack van Wijk Dept. Mathematics and Computer Science. University Eindhoven
“I found it very helpful to me in my work.”. Robert J. Stein Assistant Director, Visualization Lab
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“It was your tutorial that inspired me and brought me to read more papers”. Dr. Jonathan Qiao. Converse College
“ I am making very good use of your tutorial on time series data mining.” Rosa Basagoiti Astigarraga. Ph.d Student Universidad de Mondragon.
“Your tutorial session on InfoVis 2005 conference was great!” Dr. Jin Chen Pennsylvania State University.
"Your tutorial is very interesting" Prof. I-Cheng Yeh, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Chung-Hua University.
"I got your tutorial slides. They are great - I wish I had seen the talk!" Dr. Amy McGovern Director, IDEA lab School of Computer Science University of Oklahoma.
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"I read your time series tutorial and liked it a lot" . Delip Rao. IIT Madras
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"I am very impressed by your thorough tutorial on the time series data mining...". Dr Hwanjo Yu, U of Iowa
"your time series tutorial is a classical one and excellent. I attended it in ICDM and really learned a lot" Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Editor-in-Chief, Int. Jour. of Data Mining & Bioinformatics
"...finally I got some of your lecture slides about time series and I liked them at once. The best slides I had seen since studying computer science. Thanks for this great introduction." Jochen Fischer.
"I truly enjoyed your tutorial at VLDB 2006...". Dr. Junghoo "John" Cho. UCLA.
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Thanks again for a amazing tutorial and great slides, Rikard K�nig
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Some randomly chosen sample slides (c) Eamonn Keogh