Course: Big Data Analysis

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Fall 2013

This schedule is tentative and subject to change

Make sure to check my.poly.edu for course announcements

News

On September 30th, our class will meet at a different place: 1 Metrotech Center, 19th floor. Bring your NYU Poly id -- you will need to show it to the security guard.

Week 1: Monday Sept. 9th - Course Overview

Required Reading

Additional References

Week 2: Monday Sept. 16th - Map-Reduce/Hadoop

Assignment

For more details see http://cis.poly.edu/policies.

  • You assignment is due on Sun Sept 29th. Make sure you can login and access my.poly.edu!
  • If you have questions about the assignment, we will hold office hours on Sept 23, 2013 from 2:30-3:30pm at 2 Metrotech, room 10.018

Required Reading

Week 3: Monday Sept. 23rd - Data Management for Big Data

Related Topics

Required Reading

Additional References

Week 4: Monday Sept 30th - Invited lecture by Dr. C. Mohan (IBM)

Week 5: Monday Oct. 7th - Query Processing on Mapreduce and High-level Languages

Required Reading

Additional References

Week 6: Mon Oct. 14th - Fall Break - No class

Week 7: Monday Oct. 21st - Invited Speaker: Torsten Suel

Week 8: Monday Oct 28th- Statistics is easy - Invited Speaker: Dennis Shasha


Week 9: Monday Nov 5th - EM and Text Processing

TODO


Readings

  • Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, Chapter 6


Week 10: Monday Nov. 11th - Finding Similar Items and Information Integration

Required Reading

Homework Assignment

Due November 17th Your assignment is in http://www.newgradiance.com/services. Please see http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs9223 for instructions on how to access this service.

Week 11: Monday Nov 18th- Frequent Itemsets

Required Reading

  • Mining of Massive Datasets, Chapter 4

Homework Assignment

Due November 24th

Additional Reading


Week 12: Monday Nov. 25th - Clustering

Homework Assignment

Due Dec 1st

Readings

Further Readings


Week 13: Monday Dec. 2nd - Invited lecture by Enrico Bertini

Readings

The Value of Visualization. IEEE Visualization 2005. Jarke J. van Wijk. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.78.1138

Visualization Analysis and Design: Principles, Methods, and Practice. Tamara Munzner (Book Draft 2 from Sep. 2012). http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/courses/533-11/book/vispmp-draft.pdf


Week 14: Monday Dec. 9th - - Graph Algorithms

TODO

Readings


Week 15 Monday Dec. 16th - Final Exam

Other topics

Provenance

Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva. In Computing in Science and Engineering 14(4): 18-25, 2012.

Juliana Freire, David Koop, Emanuele Santos, and Claudio T. Silva. In IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering, 2008.