CUHK
IERG4300/ ESTR4300 Web-Scale Information Analytics
Spring 2023

Schedule

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

  • Event
    Date
    Description
    Course Material
  • Lecture
    09/01/2023 (Mon)
    11/01/2023 (Wed)
    1: Course Admin; Era of Big Data Analytics;
    [slides]

    Readings: Ch1 of [Blum]

    Additional references: [DataCenter]

  • Lecture
    16/01/2023 (Mon)
    18/01/2023 (Wed)
    2: Computing as a Utility; Data-center Architecture

    Readings: Ch1 of [MMDS]

  • Due
    21/01/2023 11:59AM
    Saturday
    Homework 0 is due!
    [Homework 0]
  • Holiday
    23/01/2023 (Mon)
    25/01/2023 (Wed)
    Chinese Lunar New Year
  • Lecture
    30/01/2023 (Mon)
    01/02/2023 (Wed)
    06/02/2023 (Mon)
    08/02/2023 (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
    13/02/2023 (Mon)
    15/02/2023 (Wed)
    5: Frequent Item-Set Mining and Association Rules
    [slides]

    Readings: Ch6.1-6.4 of [MMDS]

  • Lecture
    20/02/2023 (Mon)
    22/02/2023 (Wed)
    6: Finding Similar Items and LSH
    [slides]

    Readings: Ch3.1-3.5 of [MMDS]

    Additional references: [ZG]

  • Due
    21/02/2023 23:59PM
    Tuesday
    Homework 1 is due!
    [Homework 1]
  • Lecture
    27/02/2023 (Mon)
    01/03/2023 (Wed)
    7: Clustering and GMM
    [slides]

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

  • Lecture
    13/03/2023 (Mon)
    15/03/2023 (Wed)
    8: Dimension Reduction
    [slides] [Pseudo Inverse (CUR-related)]

    Readings: Ch11 of [MMDS]

    Additional references: [PCA] [GuruswamiKannan]

  • Holiday
    06/03/2023 (Mon)
    11/03/2023 (Sat)
    Reading Week
  • Due
    10/03/2023 23:59PM
    Friday
    Homework 2 is due!
    [Homework 2]
  • Lecture
    27/03/2023 (Mon)
    9: Recommendation Systems
    [slides]

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

  • Lecture
    27/03/2023 (Mon)
    29/03/2023 (Wed)
    03/04/2023 (Mon)
    12/04/2023 (Wed)
    10: Regression and Gradient Descent ; Recommendation Systems (cont'd)
    [slides]

    Readings: Ch9 of [MMDS]

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

  • Holiday
    05/04/2023 (Wed)
    Ching Ming Festival
  • Due
    05/04/2023 23:59PM
    Wednesday
    Homework 3 is due!
    [Homework 3]
  • Lecture
    17/04/2023 (Mon)
    19/04/2023 (Wed)
    11: Data Stream Algorithms

    Readings: Ch4.1-4.5 of [MMDS]

  • Holiday
    10/04/2023 (Mon)
    Easter Monday
  • Lecture
    24/04/2023 (Mon)
    12: Data Stream Algorithms (cont'd)

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

  • Lecture
    24/04/2023 (Mon)
    * Further Readings

    General Readings:

    Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions [Book Review] [Book Link]

    A very lively and interesting reading.

  • Due
    25/04/2023 23:59PM
    Tuesday
    Homework 4 is due!
    [Homework 4]