Course CS 6350.
002 – Big Data Management and Analytics
Professor Dr. Anurag Nagar
Term Spring 2016
Meetings Fri 4:00 PM – 6:45 PM, Location: ECSS 2.412
Professor’s Contact Information
Office Phone TBA
Office Location ECSS 4.403
Email Address axn112530@utdallas.edu
Office Hours MW 2:30 – 3:45 PM
Walk-in during office hours is encouraged. At other times, email is the
Other Information
best method of contact.
MidTerm Friday March 4, 2015
Final Exam TBA
General Course Information
Pre-requisites, Co- Database Management Systems, JAVA (intermediate/advanced), Linux
requisites, & other OS, Machine Learning/AI (co-requisite)
restrictions
Popular relational database systems like IBM DB2, Microsoft SQLServer,
Oracle, and Sybase are struggling to handle massive scale of data
introduced by the Web, Social network and cyber physical systems.
Organizations have to deal with extremely large datasets.
To handle emerging data at massive scale, "big data analytics” and “big
data management” areas are emerging. Many traditional assumptions are
not working, instead, new query and programming interfaces are required,
and new computing models are emerging.
The course will focus on data mining and machine learning algorithms for
Course Description analyzing very large amounts of data or Big data. Map Reduce and No
SQL system will be used as tools/standards for creating parallel
algorithms that can process very large amounts of data.
The course material will be drawn from textbooks as well as recent
research literature. The following topics will be covered this year:
Hadoop, Mapreduce, NoSQL systems (Cassandra, Pig, Hive, BigTable,
HBASE, SPARK), Storm, Large scale supervised machine learning, Data
streams, Clustering, and Applications including recommendation systems,
Web and security.
Ability to understand of conceptual, logical and physical organization of
big data
Ability to understand of large data processing using Map-Reduce
Ability to understand of NoSQL models, theory and practices
Ability to understand of data modeling, indexing, query processing for big
Learning Outcomes data
Ability to understand of recommendation systems for big data
Ability to understand of unsupervised learning for big data
Ability to Understand of supervised learning for big data
Ability to communicate and work on team software project
• B1: Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer, Data-Intensive Text Processing
with MapReduce, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2010.
http://lintool.github.com/MapReduceAlgorithms/
• B2: Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, and Vipin Kumar,
Introduction to Data Mining, Addison-Wesley April 2005.
• B3: Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman, Mining of Massive
Texts & Materials
Datasets, Cambridge Press,
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds/book.pdf
• B4: Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Data Mining: Concepts
and Techniques, The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management
Systems, Jim Gray, Series Editor Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, August
2000. 550 pages. ISBN 1-55860-489-8. [Optional]
Assignments & Academic Calendar
Assignments will be through eLearning.
For academic calendar see:
https://www.utdallas.edu/academiccalendar/files/AcademicCalendarSpring2016.pdf
Course Policies
20% Midterm, 20% Final, 40% Assignments, 15% Project, and 5% Class
Participation and Quizzes.
Grading (credit)
In order to obtain an “A” or “A-” grade a student must perform well in the
Criteria
examinations, as well as in the assignments, and project. This is the minimum
requirement, and satisfying this requirements does not guarantee an A or A- grade.
Late Work 5% penalty for each late day
Class Attendance Voluntary, but strongly recommended.
Make-up examinations will be offered only if the student has a valid medical reason
and produces a doctor’s letter. If a student misses an examination or quiz without
prior notice, the student will forfeit the right to take a make-up examination or quiz at
Make-up Exams
a later date. Exceptions will be made in rare situations, and entirely at the discretion
of the instructor. Any request for such make-up examination should be accompanied
by supporting document, e.g. a doctor’s note.
Please be considerate of fellow students and the instructor. Please turn off all
Classroom
electronic devices during class hours. Participate actively in classroom and online
Citizenship
(through eLearning) discussion.
This creed was voted on by the UT Dallas student body in 2014. It is a standard that
Comets choose to live by and encourage others to do the same:
Comet Creed
“As a Comet, I pledge honesty, integrity, and service in all that I do.”
The information contained in the following link constitutes the University’s policies
UT Dallas and procedures segment of the course syllabus.
Syllabus Policies
and Procedures Please go to http://go.utdallas.edu/syllabus-policies for these policies.
The descriptions and timelines contained in this syllabus are subject to change at the discretion
of the Professor.
