Schedule

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

Event

Date

Description

Course Material
Lecture

04/09/2024 (Wed)

1: Course Admin; Era of Big Data Analytics;
[slides]

Readings: Ch1 of [Blum]

Additional references: [DataCenter]
Lecture

11/09/2024 (Wed)

2: Computing as a Utility; Data-center Architecture
[slides]

Readings: Ch1 of [MMDS]
Due

14/09/2024 23:59PM
Saturday

Homework 0 is due!

[Homework 0]
Holiday

18/09/2024 (Wed)

The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival
Lecture

25/09/2024 (Wed)
02/10/2024 (Wed)

3&4: MapReduce/ Hadoop ; The Big Data Processing stack
[slides]

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

Additional references: [CloudData]
Lecture

09/10/2024 (Wed)

5: Frequent Item-Set Mining and Association Rules
[slides]

Readings: Ch6.1-6.4 of [MMDS]
On Leave

16/10/2024 (Wed)

The instructor will be on conference leave - No Lectures. The make-up lecture will be on Dec. 4 (venue is to be decided).
Due

19/10/2024 23:59PM
Saturday

Homework 1 is due!

[Homework 1]
Lecture

23/10/2024 (Wed)

6: Finding Similar Items and LSH
[slides]

Readings: Ch3.1-3.5 of [MMDS]

Additional references: [ZG]
Lecture

30/10/2024 (Wed)

7: Clustering and GMM
[slides]

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

09/11/2024 23:59PM
Saturday

Homework 2 is due!

[Homework 2]
Lecture

13/11/2024 (Wed)

8: Dimension Reduction
[slides]

Readings: Ch11 of [MMDS]

Additional references: [PCA] [GuruswamiKannan]
Lecture

13/11/2024 (Wed)

9: Recommendation Systems
[slides]

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

20/11/2024 (Wed)

10: Regression and Gradient Descent ; Recommendation Systems (cont'd)
[slides]

Readings: Ch9 of [MMDS]

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

25/11/2024 23:59PM
Monday

Homework 3 is due!

[Homework 3]
Lecture

27/11/2024 (Wed)

11: Data Stream Algorithms

Readings: Ch4.1-4.5 of [MMDS]
Make-up Lecture

04/12/2024 (Wed)

12: Data Stream Algorithms (cont'd) / Overflow

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

18/12/2024 (Wed)

The final exam will be held on Dec 18 (Wed) 7:00pm to 10:00pm at YIA LT5.