Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms
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Join the data revolution. Companies are searching for data scientists. This specialized field demands multiple skills not easy to obtain through conventional curricula. Introduce yourself to the basics of data science and leave armed with practical experience extracting value from big data. #uwdatasci

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Syllabus

Part 0: Introduction 
  • Examples, data science articulated, history and context, technology landscape
Part 1: Data Manipulation 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
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Instructors

  • Bill Howe - Scalable Data Analytics
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