PhD in Computer Science (Università degli Studi di Milano)
The course aims at illustrating some data analysis techniques characterized by scalability properties, as well as at implementing these techniques through exploitation of technologies expressly designed to be used in distributed environments. The course is co-held with prof. Santini.
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| 18/03/2016 |
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Language
Lectures are in English.
Course schedule
Lectures will take place at the Computer science department in the meeting room at 1st floor.
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 course is based on the following textbook: Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman, Mining of Massive Datasets, 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)
Syllabus
The course explains the topics listed in the lecture calendar. The described software is published in two git repositories, respectively for theory and for lab parts.
Lectures calendar
Exam modalities
The exam consists in the discussion of a project to be agreed with teachers.