CS 179G: Project in Computer Science
Bigdata Analysis
Winter 2017
Instructor: Vagelis Hristidis (aka Evangelos Christidis)
Discussion time: W 1:10-2:00 pm
Location: MSE 103
Office hour: W 2-3 pm
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LABs: TBA
TAs: Mohiuddin Qader, Nhat Le
Project Description
Grading
assignments 15%
participation, attendance 5%
project 80%
Project Presentations
Each group has 6 minutes to present. All members must participate (speak).
Tentative Discussion Schedule
| Date | Topic | |
| 1/11 | Class intro and project intro | |
| 1/18 | Intro to Crawling, Social Network APIs, MapReduce, Spark, Cassandra (spark slides) | |
| 1/25 | More on MapReduce, Spark, Cassandra | |
| 2/1 | Software Engineering Brush-up: Software Development Cycles, Design, Testing (slides) | |
| 2/8 | discussion on assignments, computer science ethics and impact (slides) | |
| 2/15 | Guest lecture: Nani Srinivasan, Homeunion Inc. | |
| 2/22 | no class, instructor out of town | |
| 3/1 | project presentations 1 (groups 1-6) | |
| 3/8 | project presentations 2 (groups 7-12) | |
| 3/15 | project presentations 3 (groups 13-18) |
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