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Description

The course discusses data-intensive analytics, and automated processing of very large amount of structured and unstructured information. We focus on leveraging the MapReduce and other related paradigms to create parallel algorithms that can be scaled up to handle massive data sets such as those collected from the World Wide Web or other Internet systems and applications. We organize the course around a list of large-scale data analytic problems in practice. The required theories and methodologies for tackling each problem will be introduced. As such, the course only expects students to have solid knowledge in probability, statistics, linear algebra and computer programming skills. Topics to be covered include: the MapReduce computational model and its system architecture and realization in practice ; Finding Frequent Item-sets and Association Rules ; Finding Similar Items in high-dimensional data ; Dimensionality Reduction techniques ; Clustering ; Recommendation systems ; Analysis of Massive Graphs and its applications on the World Wide Web ; Large-scale supervised machine learning; Processing and mining of Data Streams and their applications on large-scale network/ online-activity monitoring.

Course Information

Lecture time and venue:

• MON 11:30 - 13:15, LSB LT3
• THU 10:30 - 11:15, ERB 407

Lecture time and venue (ESTR 4300):

• Time: THU 11:30 - 12:15, ERB 407

Tutorial:

• Time: THU 9:30 - 10:15
• Venue: ERB 407

TA Office Hours: (If you want to ask TAs for help beyond those periods, please send an email to make reservations with the TA in advance.)

• Liu Yang: WED 15:30 - 16:30 SHB802
• Zhang Bowen: THU 15:30 - 16:30 SHB802
• Huang Huaiyi: TUE 15:30 - 16:30 SHB702

Instructor:

• Prof. Wing Cheong Lau. wclau [at] ie [dot] cuhk [dot] edu [dot] hk
• Office hours: MON 10:00 - 11:00, SHB 818

Teaching Assistant:

• Liu Yang ly016 [at] ie [dot] cuhk [dot] edu [dot] hk
• Zhang Bowen zb016 [at] ie [dot] cuhk [dot] edu [dot] hk
• Huang Huaiyi hh016 [at] ie [dot] cuhk [dot] edu [dot] hk

Website account:

User: engg4030
Password: fall2016engg

Highly Recommended Textbooks

• [MMDS] Mining of Massive Datasets (Download version 1.3) by Anand Rajaraman, Jeff Ullman and Jure Leskovec, Cambridge University Press. Latest version can be downloaded from Mining of Massive Datasets.pdf

• [JLin] Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce by Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer, Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2010, can be freely downloaded from http://lintool.github.io/MapReduceAlgorithms/

• [CBishop] Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop, Published by Springer Science and Business, 2007.

• [MLE/MAP] Estimating Probabilities: MLE and MAP http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook/Joint_MLE_MAP.pdf

• [HTF] Elements of Statistical Learning 2nd Edition by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome H. Friedman, Published by Springer, 2009. Ebook version can be downloaded from: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-84858-7 via a CUHK IP address

• [JWHT] An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R, by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani, Published by Springer, 2013. Ebook version can be downloaded from: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4614-7138-7 via a CUHK IP address

• [PCA] Principal Component Analysis, 2nd Edition, by I.T. Jolliffe, Published by Springer 2002, Ebook version can be download from: http://www.springerlink.com/content/h41v76/?p=e8e028e1c9ba414690c9179ee7c0e388&pi=3 via a CUHK IP address

• [ShaliziADAEPV] Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, "Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View", Cambridge University Press, 2014. Draft available for download from: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/ADAfaEPoV/

• [ShaprioStockman] Shaprio and Stockman, Computer Vision, 2000, Chapter 4.2-4.9, https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse576/book/ch4.pdf

• [Blum] Blum, Avrim, John Hopcroft, and Ravindran Kannan. "Foundations of Data Science." (2017): https://www.cs.cornell.edu/jeh/book.pdf

Tentative Timetable

Course Assessment

Your grade will be based on the following components:

• Homeworks & Programming assignments (5 sets in total): 50%
• Mid-term: 10%
• Final Exam: 40% (2-hour final examination)

Student/Faculty Expectations on Teaching and Learning

http://mobitec.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/StaffStudentExpectations.pdf

Academic Honesty

You are expected to do your own work and acknowledge the use of anyone else's words or ideas. You MUST put down in your submitted work the names of people with whom you have had discussions.

Refer to http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty for details

When scholastic dishonesty is suspected, the matter will be turned over to the University authority for action.

You MUST include the following signed statement in all of your submitted homework, project assignments and examinations. Submission without a signed statement will not be graded.

I declare that the assignment here submitted is original except for source material explicitly acknowledged, and that the same or related material has not been previously submitted for another course. I also acknowledge that I am aware of University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and of the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations, as contained in the website http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/.

Course Collaborators

Windows Azure

Mirantis

CUHK

Amazon EC2