CUHK
ENGG5108 Big Data Analytics
Fall 2025

Tentative schedule

This is a tentative schedule. It will be updated according to the actual progress.

  • Week/Date
    Description
    Course Material
    Remark
  • Week 1
    03/09/2025 (Wed)
    05/09/2025 (Fri)
    Course Admin; Era of Big Data Analytics
    [slides]

    Readings: Ch1 of [Blum]

    Additional references: [DataCenter]

  • Week 2
    10/09/2025 (Wed)
    12/09/2025 (Fri)
    Computing as a Utility; Data-center Architecture

    Readings: Ch1 of [MMDS]

  • 13/09/2025 23:59PM
    Saturday
    Homework 0 is due!
    [Homework 0]
    Due
  • Week 3
    17/09/2025 (Wed)
    19/09/2025 (Fri)
    MapReduce/ Hadoop

    Readings: Ch2.1-2.4 of [MMDS] Ch2 of [JLin] Ch3.1-3.4 of [JLin]

    Additional references: [CloudData]

  • Week 4
    24/09/2025 (Wed)
    26/09/2025 (Fri)
    The Big Data Processing stack

    Readings: Ch2.1-2.4 of [MMDS] Ch2 of [JLin] Ch3.1-3.4 of [JLin]

    Additional references: [CloudData]

  • 01/10/2025 (Wed)
    The National Day Holiday
    Holiday
  • Week 5
    03/10/2025 (Fri)
    Frequent Item-Set Mining and Association Rules

    Readings: Ch6.1-6.4 of [MMDS]

  • Week 6
    08/10/2025 (Wed)
    10/10/2025 (Fri)
    Finding Similar Items and LSH

    Readings: Ch3.1-3.5 of [MMDS]

    Additional references: [ZG]

  • Week 7
    15/10/2025 (Wed)
    17/10/2025 (Fri)
    Clustering and GMM

    Readings: Ch7.1-7.4 of [MMDS] Ch11 of [MMDS] Ch.9 of [CBishop] [MLE/MAP]

  • Week 8
    22/10/2025 (Wed)
    24/10/2025 (Fri)
    Dimension Reduction

    Readings: Ch11 of [MMDS]

    Additional references: [PCA] [GuruswamiKannan]

  • 29/10/2025 (Wed)
    The Chung Yeung Festival
    Holiday
  • 31/10/2025 (Fri)
    The instructor will be on conference leave - No Lectures. The make-up lecture will be on Dec. 2 (venue is to be decided).
    On Leave
  • Week 10
    05/11/2025 (Wed)
    07/11/2025 (Fri)
    Recommendation Systems

    Readings: [SVDPCA] [ANgCS229PCA] Ch17 of [ShaliziADAEPV]

  • Week 11
    12/11/2025 (Wed)
    14/11/2025 (Fri)
    Regression and Gradient Descent

    Readings: Ch9 of [MMDS]

    Additional references: [Netflix09] [KorenTalk] [ANg] [Pedregosa18] [Sra18]

  • Week 12
    19/11/2025 (Wed)
    21/11/2025 (Fri)
    Data Stream Algorithms

    Readings: Ch4.1-4.5 of [MMDS]

  • Week 13
    26/11/2025 (Wed)
    28/11/2025 (Fri)
    Data Stream Algorithms (cont'd)

    Readings: Ch0,Ch1,Ch4.4,Ch6 of [ChakDataStream]

  • Week 14
    02/12/2025 (Tue)
    Make-up lecture
    Make-up Lecture