Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms

Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms

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  • 8 Sequences
  • Introductive Level

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Syllabus

Part 0: Introduction 
  • Examples, data science articulated, history and context, technology landscape
Part 1: DataManipulation at Scale
  • Databases and the relational algebra 
  • Parallel databases, parallel query processing, in-database analytics 
  • MapReduce, Hadoop, relationship to databases, algorithms, extensions, languages  
  • Key-value stores and NoSQL; tradeoffs of SQL and NoSQL
Part 2: Analytics
  • Topics in statistical modeling: basic concepts, experiment design, pitfalls
  • Topics in machine learning: supervised learning (rules, trees, forests, nearest neighbor, regression), optimization (gradient descent and variants), unsupervised learning
Part 3: Communicating Results
  • Visualization, data products, visual data analytics 
  • Provenance, privacy, ethics, governance 
Part 4: Special Topics
  • Graph Analytics: structure, traversals, analytics, PageRank, community detection, recursive queries, semantic web
  • Guest Lectures

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

  • Bill Howe - Scalable Data Analytics

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