CS 179G: Project in Computer Science
Big data Analysis
Fall 2023
Instructor: Vagelis Hristidis (aka Evangelos Christidis)
Discussion time: W 5-5:50 pm
Location: Materials Sci and Engineering Room 103
Office hour: Wednesdays 4-5 pm at WCH 363
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TA: Shihab Rashid
Course Overview
This is a senior project course. We will talk about big data technologies in the class and about software development methodologies.
Students will form groups of 4 to work on the project.
Project Description
Grading
participation, attendance 5%
project 95%
Project Presentations
Each group will have about 8 minutes to present. All members must participate (speak). Will probably do the presentations in the Finals week.
Tentative Discussion Schedule
| Date | Topic |
| 10/4 | Class intro and project intro |
| 10/11 | Big data sources, Spark |
| 10/18 | Spark (cont'd) |
| 10/25 | NoSQL, Cassandra |
| 11/1 | Guest lecture 1: Mohiuddin Qader, eBay |
| 11/8 | Agile Development: Scrum, privacy and security considerations |
| 11/15 | Guest lecture 2: Merlin Mao, Bytedance |
| 11/22 | no lecture: prepare report and presentation |
| 11/29 | presentations |
| 12/6 | presentations |
Other material
computer science ethics and impact (slides), Software Development Cycles, Design, Testing (slides)
Useful Links
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/apache_spark/
http://hector-client.github.io/hector/build/html/index.html, https://github.com/zznate/hector-examples
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis
Policies
Academic Integrity: http://conduct.ucr.edu/learnPolicies/Pages/AcademicIntegrity.aspx
Standards of Conduct: http://conduct.ucr.edu/learnPolicies/Pages/StandardsofConduct.aspx