Course Information:

  • IDS 561 - Analytics for Big Data
  • Fall 2024
  • LC D002, Tue. 3:30pm - 6:00pm
  • yuhenghu at uic dot edu
  • Office hour: Email

Overview

The “big data” paradigm has drawn a significant amount of attention in recent years as costs of acquiring and storing data have plummeted. Instead, bottlenecks have been shifted to fast and in-depth analysis. However, this shift has created its own set of problems, the most obvious one is that large datasets are often computationally expensive to process. Algorithms that are efficiently capable of processing data that fit in memory may become prohibitively expensive to use on larger datasets. Consequently, it can be difficult to gain insights from the underlying data.

This course is an introductory course for big data analytics and data science. It has three main goals. First, it is intended to provide the student with an appreciation for the issues involved in doing data science to work on datasets that do not fit in main memory. Second, it is intended to provide a working knowledge of and experience with some of the current distributed frameworks (e.g. Hadoop). Third, the course is intended to provide students with hands-on opportunities to implement solutions using real-world datasets.

Academic Integrity

You are expected to adhere to the highest standards of academic honesty. Unless otherwise specified, collaboration on assignments is not allowed. Use of published materials is allowed, but the sources should be explicitly stated in your solutions. Violations will be reviewed and sanctioned according to the University Policy on Academic Integrity. Collaborations among team members are only allowed for the final term projects that are selected. "Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly activity free from fraud and deception and is an educational objective of this institution. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarizing, fabricating of information or citations, facilitating acts of academic dishonesty by others, having unauthorized possession of examinations, submitting work for another person or work previously used without informing the instructor, or tampering with the academic work of other students." For more information about violations of academic integrity and their consequences, consult http://vcsa.uic.edu/

Prerequisites

IDS 400/401, and IDS 572

Recommended textbooks

In-class survey

Weekly Schedule

Classs Date Topic Assignment
Lecture 1 Intro to Big data analytics
Lecture 2 Big data with MapReduce I
Lecture 3 Big data with MapReduce II HW #1 Lab #1
Lecture 4 Big data with Spark Quiz #1
Lecture 5 Real-time Streaming Models HW #2 HW #1 due, Lab #2
Lecture 6 Query Processing on Big Data Platforms Project proposal due
Lecture 7 Data Frame on Spark Quiz #2
Lecture 8 CAP theorem and NoSQL databases HW #3 HW #2 due, Lab #3
Lecture 9 Cloud and edge computing Mid-term report due
Lecture 10 Machine Learning with Big Data: Recommender Systems Quiz #3
Lecture 11 Machine Learning with Big Data: GPTs I HW #4 HW #3 due, Lab #4
Lecture 12 Machine Learning with Big Data: GPTs II Quiz #4
Lecture 13 Machine Learning with Big Data: GPTs III Quiz #4
Lecture 14 Final Presentation