COMP 4311
Big Data
Winter 2024
Topics
- – 14, Introduction to Big Data
- – 21, Distributions, Probability, Statistics
- – 28, Descriptive & Inferential Statistics
- – ANOVA, Linear/Logistic Regression
- – 18, Machine Learning
- – , Classification, Clustering
- – 10, Clustering, Model Evaluations
- – 17, Big Data Technologies
- – 24, Hadoop, HDFS
- – 31, MapReduce
- – , Case Study, Review
Readings
- Required: Moore, D., George P. McCabe, and B. Craig. Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, San Francisco, CA: Freeman, 2012.
- Required: Mitchell, T. Machine Learning, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY, 1997. P Wes McKinney. Python for Data Analysis, 2nd/3rd Edition, O'Reilly Media,2017/2022.
- Required: Leskovec, J., Rajaraman A., Ullman, J., Mining of Massive Datasets, 3rd Edition, Cambridge Univ Press Selected research publications and course materials shared by researchers.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2024
- Course source ↗
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.