Description
- Obtain our texts
- Tom White. 2015.Hadoop: The Definitive Guide (4th ed.). O’Reilly Media, Inc (TW)
- Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin Fowler. 2012. NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence. Addison-Wesley.(PS)
- Read from (TW)
- Chapter 1 (note this chapter is also on Blackboard “Free Books and Chapters” so you don’t need to wait for the book to arrive)
- Chapter 3
- (5 points) Submit very brief answers (or bullet points) to the following questions:
- Describe any prior experience you might with, data mining, machine learning, statistics, data science and big data
- Share any big data interests and personal learning goals for the course
- Indicate if there are additional topics in the scope of the course of special interest to you
- Indicate if you have access to big data technology and data sets, of what nature, and in what industry.
- Do you have any anticipated personal issues such as expected absences or other necessary accommodations with course impact? (Of course, these will be held in strictest confidence.)
- Read article on “Blackboard” in Articles section
- The Parable of Google Flu (just 3 pages!)
- (5 points) Summarize the main points of the above article and your thoughts (questions you might want to ask the authors, areas where you disagree, other comments)
- No more than about ½ page single spaced
- Submit via blackboard
Extra Credit:
- Read article on “Blackboard” in Articles section
- Byzantine Fault Tolerant MapReduce
- (2 points) Summarize the main points of the above article and your thoughts (questions you might want to ask the authors, areas where you disagree, other comments)
- No more than about ½ page single spaced
- Submit via blackboard
