CUHK
IERG4300/ ESTR4300 Web-Scale Information Analytics
Fall 2023

Schedule

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

  • Event
    Date
    Description
    Course Material
  • Lecture
    05/09/2023 (Tue)
    06/09/2023 (Wed)
    1: Course Admin; Era of Big Data Analytics;
    [slides]

    Readings: Ch1 of [Blum]

    Additional references: [DataCenter]

  • Lecture
    12/09/2023 (Tue)
    13/09/2023 (Wed)
    2: Computing as a Utility; Data-center Architecture

    Readings: Ch1 of [MMDS]

  • Due
    17/09/2023 17:59PM
    Sunday
    Homework 0 is due!
    [Homework 0]
  • Lecture
    19/09/2023 (Tue)
    20/09/2023 (Wed)
    26/09/2023 (Tue)
    27/09/2023 (Wed)
    3-4: MapReduce/ Hadoop ; The Big Data Processing stack
    [slides] [ESTR slides]

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

    Additional references: [CloudData]

  • Lecture
    03/10/2023 (Tue)
    04/10/2023 (Wed)
    5: Frequent Item-Set Mining and Association Rules
    [slides]

    Readings: Ch6.1-6.4 of [MMDS]

  • Due
    09/10/2023 23:59PM
    Monday
    Homework 1 is due!
    [Homework 1]
  • Lecture
    11/10/2023 (Wed)
    12/10/2023 (Thu)
    6: Finding Similar Items and LSH
    [slides]

    Readings: Ch3.1-3.5 of [MMDS]

    Additional references: [ZG]

  • Lecture
    17/10/2023 (Tue)
    18/10/2023 (Wed)
    7: Clustering and GMM
    [slides]

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

  • Lecture
    24/10/2023 (Tue)
    25/10/2023 (Wed)
    8: Dimension Reduction
    [slides]

    Readings: Ch11 of [MMDS]

    Additional references: [PCA] [GuruswamiKannan]

  • Due
    30/10/2023 23:59PM
    Monday
    Homework 2 is due!
    [Homework 2]
  • Lecture
    31/10/2023 (Tue)
    01/11/2023 (Wed)
    9: Recommendation Systems
    [slides]

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

  • Lecture
    07/11/2023 (Tue)
    08/11/2023 (Wed)
    14/11/2023 (Tue)
    15/11/2023 (Wed)
    10: Regression and Gradient Descent ; Recommendation Systems (cont'd)

    Readings: Ch9 of [MMDS]

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

  • Due
    20/11/2023 23:59PM
    Monday
    Homework 3 is due!
    [Homework 3]
  • Lecture
    21/11/2023 (Tue)
    22/11/2023 (Wed)
    11: Data Stream Algorithms

    Readings: Ch4.1-4.5 of [MMDS]

  • Lecture
    28/11/2023 (Tue)
    29/11/2023 (Wed)
    12: Data Stream Algorithms (cont'd)

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

  • Due
    09/12/2023 23:59PM
    Saturday
    Homework 4 is due!
    [Homework 4]