MSc in Computer science (Università degli Studi di Milano)
This course introduces the principal techniques related to the analysis of large amounts of data.
News
| Date | Info |
|---|---|
| 13/03/2018 |
Office hours canceled Starting wednesday 03/14, regular office hour are canceled; students can arrange an appointment via e-mail. |
| 09/01/2018 |
Big scale analytics test of Jaunary 2018 The Big scale analytics test of January will take place on 15/1 starting from 9:30 in the professor's office. |
| 20/04/2017 |
Office hours of Jan 9th canceled The office hour of Jan 9th are canceled; students can arrange an appointment via e-mail. |
| 16/12/2017 |
Schedule change for the Big scale analytics course The December, 19th class of the Big scale analytics course is canceled. It will be catched up on Jan 8th, 2018. |
| 07/12/2017 |
Schedule change for the Big scale analytics course The December, 11th class of the Big scale analytics course will take place on Dec 12th. |
| 29/11/2017 |
Schedule change for the Big scale analytics course The forthcoming classes of the Big scale analytics course will take place on Dec 4th, Dec 11th, Dec 18th and Dec 19th. |
| 02/11/2017 |
Schedule change for the Big scale analytics course The 27/11 class of the Big scale analytics course will take place in aula 6 at 14:30, and the class of 28/11 will take place at 13:30 in aula alfa. |
| 04/10/2017 |
Docker container for the Big scale analytics course Students of the Big scale analytics course can download a ZIP archive containing all files needed to build and run the docker container used during lectures. |
Language
Lectures are in italian.
Course schedule
Lectures will take place at the Computer science department, according to the following tentative schedule:
| Day | Hour | Place |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 14:30 - 16:30 | aula Delta |
| Tuesday | 14:30 - 16:30 | aula Omega |
Any change to the schedule will be announced in class and published in paragraph News of this page.
Office hours
By appointment, room 5015 of the Computer Science Department.
It is possible contact the teacher by e-mail, taking care to read in advance the guide prepared by Prof. Sebastiano Vigna and clearly specifying in the message the course name and the academic year. In particular, students are encouraged to always use their academic address (i.e. based on the domain studenti.unimi.it) signing with name and student ID number and recalling that the response time may vary depending on the teacher commitments.
Course material
The theoric part of the course is based on the following textbook: Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman, Mining of Massive Datasets (marked by RU in the lectures calendar)., available both as a freely downloadable PDF and published in hardcopy by Cambridge University Press (ISBN:9781107015357). The suggested readings for the practical part are Holden Karau, Andy Konwinski, Patrick Wendell, Matei Zaharia, Learning Spark. Lightning-Fast Big Data Analysis, O'Reilly, 2015 (ISBN:978-1-449-35862-4) and Sandy Ryza, Uri Laserson, Sean Owen, Josh Wills, Advanced Analytics with Spark. Patterns for Learning from Data at Scale, O'Reilly, 2015 (ISBN:978-1-491-91276-8)
The part on distributed file systems and MapReduce is based on the adopted textbook and on the Hadoop tutorial published by Yahoo!
Some labs refer to the Data Science and Engineering with Spark edX program.
Syllabus
The course explains the topics listed in the lecture calendar, covering the textbook contents as well as the contents of the remaining documents listed in Course material.
Lectures calendar
Exam modalities
The exam consists in an oral test, by appointment.