Realtime and Big Data Analytics

CSCI-GA.3033-003

 

NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Computer Science Department, Graduate School

Summer 2017

 


 

General Information

 

Lecturer: Suzanne McIntosh (mcintosh@cs.nyu.edu)

 

Office Hours: Evenings by appointment in WWH 328, and after class.

 

Semester: Summer 2017

 

Room: CIWW (Courant Institute, Warren Weaver Hall) room 317

 

Day and Time: Wednesday, 6:00-8:20 pm

 


Prerequisites

 

CSCI-GA 2250 or equivalent Operating Systems course; programming experience in Java, C/C++, or Python for assignments and final project; CSCI-GA 2262, CSCI-GA 2620, or undergraduate course in networks. A familiarity with databases and Linux will be helpful, but is not required.

 


Texts

 

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, 4th edition, by Tom White

Hadoop Operations, by Eric Sammer (optional)

Programming Pig, by Alan Gates (optional)

Programming Hive, by Edward Capriolo, Dean Wampler, and Jason Rutherglen (optional)

Architecting HBase Applications, by Jean-Marc Spaggiari and Kevin O'Dell (optional)

HBase: The Definitive Guide, by Lars George (optional)

 

 


Tools

Cloudera QuickStart VM is available at:

http://www.cloudera.com/content/support/en/downloads/download-components/download-products.html?productID=F6mO278Rvo

 


Description

 

This course introduces architectures and technologies at the foundation of the Big Data movement. These technologies facilitate scalable management and processing of vast quantities of data collected through realtime and near realtime sensing. We explore tools enabling the acquisition of data in the social domain and the fusion of those data when in flight and at rest using Hadoop and Hadoop-related tools.

 

The material covered in this course aligns with the prevailing state of the art in Big Data technologies, which continues to be a rapidly evolving landscape as new technologies emerge and existing ones evolve and mature.

 

Students are required to complete weekly reading and/or programming assignments and demonstrate mastery of course topics by designing, developing, and demonstrating an analytics project of their choosing. Class time will be set aside for project proposal and final demo.

 


Acknowledgement

 

We are grateful to Amazon for supporting this course through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Education Grant.

 


Grading

 

Grades are based on the following approximate weighting:

 

Readings, lab assignments, class participation

20%

Midterm

25%

Final

25%

Project

30%

 


Syllabus

Class

Topic

1

Introduction to Hadoop and Big Data

2

Distributed File Systems, HDFS, MapReduce

3

HDFS and MapReduce Architecture

4

Introduction to Pig, Analytics Examples

5

Project Tee-up, Realtime Systems, Introduction to Flume

6

New Alternatives to Traditional Database Systems and Access Methods, NoSQL, HBase

7

Midterm Exam

8

Hadoop in the Cloud

9

Hive

10

Autonomic Systems

11

Distributed Coordination, ZooKeeper

12

Hadoop Fault Tolerance

13

YARN, Spark, Final Exam Review

14

Project Demo Day

15

Final Exam