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== Week 4:  Monday Oct. 1st - Statistics is easy - Invited Speaker: Dennis Shasha ==
== Week 4:  Monday Oct. 1st - Statistics is easy - Invited Speaker: Dennis Shasha ==


* Guest lecture by [http://cs.nyu.edu/shasha/ Dennis Shasha]:  Statistics and Big Data
* Guest lecture by [http://cs.nyu.edu/shasha/ Dennis Shasha]:  [ http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs9223/Lectures/stateasy.pdf Statistics is Easy]
* Pig Latin and Query Processing  
* Pig Latin and Query Processing:
** [http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs9223/Lectures/query_processing_relational  Relational query processing: Review]
** [http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/cs9223/Lectures/query_processing_pig_mapreduce.ppt.pdf  Query Processing in Pig]


=== Required Reading ===
=== Required Reading ===

Revision as of 18:17, 1 October 2012

This schedule is tentative and subject to change

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

Week 1: Monday Sept. 10th - Course Overview

Required Reading

Additional References

Week 2: Monday Sept. 17th - Map-Reduce

Required Reading

Additional References

Week 3: Monday Sept. 24th - Databases and Big Data

Related Topics

Required Reading

Additional Readings

Week 4: Monday Oct. 1st - Statistics is easy - Invited Speaker: Dennis Shasha

Required Reading

Week 5: Monday Oct. 8st - Finding Similar Items

  • Overview of information integration
  • Provenance and data exploration

Required Reading

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.

Week 6: Monday Oct. 15st - Invited Speaker: Torsten Suel

  • Reading: inverted index and crawling (Lin chapter 4)
  • Ask Torsten (tentative, ask him for reading material)

Readings

Week 7: Monday Oct. 22st - Invited Speakers: Claudio Silva and Lauro Lins

  • Introduction to Visualization; Data stewardship and provenance
  • Guest lecture by Claudio Silva and Lauro Lins

Readings

  • Hellerstein (ask Claudio for additional references)
  • ADD: provenance and reproducibility

Week 8: Monday Oct. 29th - Graph Analysis

  • Graph algorithms, link analysis, social networks

Readings

  • Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, Chapter 4


Week 9: Monday Nov. 5th - Frequent Itemsets

Reading

  • Mining of Massive Datasets, Chapter 6


Week 10: Monday Nov. 12th - Mining Data Streams =

Readings

  • Mining of Massive Datasets, Chapter 4


Week 11: Monday Nov. 19th - Clustering

Readings

  • Mining of Massive Datasets, Chapter 7

Week 12: Monday Nov. 26th - Recommendation Systems

Readings

  • Mining of Massive Datasets, Chapter 9

Week 13 Monday Dec. 3rd - EM algorithms for text processing

  • Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, Chapter 6

Week 14: Monday Dec. 10th - Project presentation

Further Readings