Instructor: Arash Termehchy
Home | Administration and Policies | Schedule | Projects
T h e p r o m i s e o f d a t a - d r i v e n d e c i s i o n - m a k i n g i s n o w b e i n g r e c o g n i z e d b r o a d l y a n d t h e r e i s g r o w i n g e n t h u s i a s m f o r t h e n o t i o n o f ` ` B i g D a t a . O r g a n i z a t i o n s m a k e t h e i r d e c i s i o n s b a s e d o n c o m p u t e r i z e d d a t a a n a l y s e s . R e c e n t s c i e n t i f i c d i s c o v e r i e s w e r e n o t p o s s i b l e i f n o t f o r t h e p r o g r a m s t h a t h e l p s c i e n t i s t s t o s h a r e a n d a n a l y z e t h e l a r g e v o l u m e s o f t h e d a t a g e n e r a t e d f r o m s c i e n t i f i c e x p e r i m e n t s . W h i l e t h e p r o m i s e o f B i g D a t a i s r e a l - - f o r e x a m p l e , i t i s e s t i m a t e d t h a t G o o g l e a l o n e c o n t r i b u t e d 5 4 b i l l i o n d o l l a r s t o t h e U S e c o n o m y i n 2 0 0 9 - - t h e r e i s c u r r e n t l y a w i d e g a p b e t w e e n i t s p o t e n t i a l a n d i t s r e a l i z a t i o n . I n t h i s c o u r s e , y o u w i l l s t u d y a n d d i s c u s s t h e c h a l l e n g e s i n e x p l o r i n g a n d a n a l y z i n g l a r g e - s c a l e d a t a s e t s .
In addition to the papers posted in the class website, we will refer to the following text books in our discussions in the class. They are free!
- Required: Foundations of Databases, by Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, and Victor Vianu
- Mining of Massive Datasets , by Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeffrey D. Ullman