Course Syllabus
Overview
Students should watch Udacity course videos according to the following schedule. It is recommended for students to do lab sessions on the schedule by yourself as early as possible since some of homework may cover the lab materials scheduled later than the homework.
Schedule
| Week # | 2017 Dates | Lesson | Lab | Deliverable Due |
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| 1 | Jan 10 Jan 12 | 1. Intro to Big Data Analytics 2. Course Overview |
Scala Basic | |
| 2 | Jan 17 Jan 19 | 3. Predictive Modeling | (Jan 19) Hadoop & HDFS Basics [Class Video] |
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| 3 | Jan 24 Jan 26 | 4.MapReduce (Jan 24) Guest lecture - Jon Duke, Phenotyping on OHDSI |
(Jan 26) Hadoop Streaming & HBase [Class Video] |
HW 1 (Jan 29 due) |
| 4 | Jan 31 Feb 2 | 5.Classification evaluation metrics 6.Classification ensemble methods 7. Phenotyping & 8. Clustering (Jan 31) Guest lecture - Jon Duke on clinical NLP |
(Feb 2) Hadoop Pig & Hive [Class Video] |
Project group formation (Feb 5) |
| 5 | Feb 7 Feb 9 |
(Feb 7) Guest lecture - Bess Searles, CHOA, medically complex patient management | (Feb 9) NLP Lab [Class Video] |
HW 2 (Feb 12 due) |
| 6 | Feb 14 Feb 16 | 9. Spark (Feb 16) Guest lecture - Cindie Dilley, UCB, Big data for pharma at TSRB Auditorium |
(Feb 14) Spark Basic, Spark SQL [Class Video] |
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| 7 | Feb 21 Feb 23 | 10. Medical ontology (Feb 21) Guest lecture - Greg Gibson, Genomic analysis (Feb 23) Guest lecture - Peng Qiu, BME@GT, cancer treatment modeling |
HW 3 (Feb 26 due) | |
| 8 | Feb 28 Mar 2 | 11. Graph analysis (Mar 2) Guest lecture - Mark Craven (UW Madison) at TSRB Auditorium |
(Feb 28) Spark Application [Class Video] |
Project Proposal (Mar 5) |
| 9 | Mar 7 Mar 9 | 12. Dimensionality Reduction | Spark MLlib & Spark GraphX | |
| 10 | Mar 14 Mar 16 | 13. Patient similairty (Mar 16) Guest lecture - George Hripcsak (Columbia) at TSRB Auditorium |
HW 4 (Mar 19 due) | |
| 11 | Mar 21 Mar 23 | Spring break | ||
| 12 | Mar 28 Mar 30 | (Mar 28) Guest Lecture - Alistair McLean on AWS | Peer review bidding (Mar 31 due) |
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| 13 | Apr 4 Apr 6 |
Paper Project draft (Apr 9) | ||
| 14 | Apr 11 Apr 13 | (Apr 11) Guest Lecture - Mostafa Elzoghbi - AZURE | Peer Review for Draft (Apr 16) | |
| 15 | Apr 18 Apr 20 | Guest Lecture | ||
| 16 | Apr 25 Apr 27 | Prof to discuss projects with teams (Apr 25) | Final Project (code+presentation+ final paper) (Apr 27 - extended) |
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| 17 | 5/2/2017 | Final Exam Week |
Previous Guest Lectures
See RESOURCE section.