Course: Big Data 2015

DS-GA 1004- Big Data: Tentative Schedule -- subject to change

• Course Web page: http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2015

• Instructor: Professor Juliana Freire (http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana)

• Lecture: Mondays, 4:55pm-7:35pm at Silver, room 208.
• Some classes will include a lab session, please "always bring your laptop.

News

• 2/26/2015: An Amazon AWS token was emailed to each student. Please create your Amazon AWS account. You can find instructions at: http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/AWS_Setup
• 2/26/2015: You should install the Cloudera VM on your laptop. We will need that for the lab on March 9th. Here are the instructions: Cloudera VM Setup
• There is a new version of the textbook Mining of Massive Datasets, we will use the latest version 2.1

Background (2 weeks)

Week 1 - Feb 2: Course Overview; The evolution of Data Management and introduction to Big Data

• Lecture notes: http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2015/Lectures/course-overview.pdf
• Reading: Chapter 1 of Mining of Massive Data Sets (version 1.1)
• Course survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LTiJwkDVvp0cF62Fw_d9Y86US5LCkorRUIQtV2T8KWE/viewform?usp=send_form

Week 2 - Feb 9: Introduction to Databases, Relational Model and SQL

• Lecture notes:
  • http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2015/Lectures/intro-to-db.pdf
  • http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2015/Lectures/relational-algebra.pdf
  • http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2015/Lectures/sql-intro.pdf
  • http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2015/Lectures/sql-more.pdf

• Lab:
  • SQL hands on: Big Data 2015 - SQL Lab

• Other useful reading:
  • Greenspun's SQL for Web Nerds Intro
  • SQL/Nerds Modeling (parts)

• Programming assignment: Using SQL for data analysis and cleaning (see NYU Classes)

Big Data Foundations and Infrastructure (3 weeks)

Week 3 - Feb 23: Introduction to Map Reduce

• Lab: (continuation)
  • SQL hands on: Big Data 2015 - SQL Lab
• Lecture notes:
  • http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2015/Lectures/mapreduce-intro.pdf
• Required Reading:
  • Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce. Chapters 1 and 2
  • Mining of Massive Datasets (v 2.1). Chapter 2 - 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3
• Other useful reading:
  • Hadoop: The Definitive Guide. http://www.amazon.com/Hadoop-Definitive-Guide-Tom-White/dp/1449311520

• Quiz 1 (Map Reduce) assigned -- check http://www.newgradiance.com/services

Week 4: Algorithm Design for MapReduce: Relational Operations

• Lecture notes:
  • http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2015/Lectures/mapreduce-algo-design-relations.pdf

• Lab: Hands-on Hadoop

• Required reading:
  • Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce, Chapters 1 and 2
  • Mining of Massive Datasets (2nd Edition), Chapter 2.

• Programming assignment: Map Reduce

== Week 5: MapReduce Algorithm Design Patterns; Parallel Databases vs MapReduce

• Lecture notes:
  • http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2015/Lectures/mapreduce-algo-design-patterns.pdf
  • http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/MassiveDataAnalysis2014/Lectures/paralleldb-vs-hadoop-2014.pdf

Transparency and Reproducibility (1 week)

Week 6: Data Exploration and Reproducibility

• Lecture notes: http://vgc.poly.edu/~fchirigati/mda-class/provenance-reproducibility.pdf

• Lab: VisTrails

• Programming assignment: Exploring urban data

Big Data Algorithms, Mining Techniques, and Visualization (6 weeks)

Week 8: Visualization and Spatio-Temporal Data -- Invited lecture by Dr. Huy Vo (NYU CUSP)

• Lecture notes:
  • http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/MassiveDataAnalysis2014/Lectures/vis_and_big_data_resized.pdf

Week 9: Association Rules

• Lecture notes:
  • http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/MassiveDataAnalysis2014/Lectures/association-rules.pdf

• Assignment on frequent items and association rule mining. Due on Dec 7th. Check http://www.newgradiance.com/services

• Reading: Chapter 6 Mining of Massive Datasets

• Suggested additional reading:
  • Fast algorithms for mining association rules, Agrawal and Srikant, VLDB 1994.
  • Data Mining Concepts and Techniques, Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Morgan Kaufmann
  • Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket Data. Brin et al., SIGMOD 1997. http://www-db.stanford.edu/~sergey/dic.html

Week 10: Finding similar items

• Lecture notes:
  • http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2015/Lectures/similarity.pdf

• Reading: Chapter 3 Mining of Massive Datasets

• Homework Assignment
  • There are two new quizes on Gradiance -- Distance measures and document similarity. They due on May 5th.
  • Your final assignment is available at http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/Assignment_4_-_Querying_with_Pig_and_Mapreduce. This is an optional assignment and will count towards extra credit

Week 11: Graph Analysis

• Lecture notes:
  • http://vgc.poly.edu/~juliana/courses/BigData2015/Lectures/graph-algos.pdf