Course: Big Data Analysis

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This schedule is tentative and subject to change

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

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Project description

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

Homework Assignment

Due October 9th BigDataHW1

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

Required Reading

Homework Assignment

Due October 15th at noon 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 6: Wednesday Oct. 17th - Invited Speaker: Torsten Suel

Note this class will be held on Wednesday!

Readings

Week 7: Monday Oct. 22st - Invited lecture by and Lauro Lins

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 8: Monday Oct 29th- Class canceled due to storm

Week 9: Monday Nov 5th- Data infrastructure and information integration

Readings

  • HBase book HBase: The Definitive Guide. Random Access to Your Planet-Size Data: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920014348.do
  • HBase book. Chapter 8 Architecture for information about transactional processing, WriteAhead Log notably, and how consistency is being maintained.

Week 10: Monday Nov. 12th - Frequent Itemsets

Readings

  • Mining of Massive Datasets, Chapter 4

Additional Reading

Week 11: Monday Nov 19th- Algorithms on MapReduce: text processing

Readings

  • Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, Chapter 4

Week 12: Monday Nov. 26th - Graph Algorithms and Phase-I project presentations

Readings

  • Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, Chapter 4
  • Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing. Google. [3]

Week 13: Monday Dec. 3rd - Clustering

Readings

Week 14: Monday Dec. 10th - EM algorithms for text processing

Readings

  • Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, Chapter 6


Week 15 Monday Dec. 17 - Phase-II Project presentation

Further Readings

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.