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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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INR 16679yesThe University of Adelaide, Adelaide

The Syllabus

  • Pre-course survey
  • Course outline
  • BigDataX requirements

  • The four Vs of big data
  • Quiz 1: The four Vs
  • Rare events in big data
  • Quiz 2: Rare events in random data
  • Models of data

  • Characteristics of web and social networks
  • Models of social networks
  • Quiz 3: Models of social networks
  • Community detection in social networks
  • Quiz 4: Betweenness

  • Introduction to clustering
  • Clustering methods for social networks
  • Quiz 5: HCS, SNN and MCL clustering algorithms
  • Hierarchical clustering of data
  • Quiz 6: Hierarchical clustering of data
  • K-means clustering

  • The concept of PageRank
  • PageRank for strongly connected graphs
  • Quiz 7: Calculating PageRank
  • General PageRank using taxation
  • Quiz 8: Applying PageRank with Taxation

  • The basics of MapReduce
  • Quiz 9: The basics of MapReduce
  • MapReduce implementation
  • Computing PageRank using MapReduce
  • Major assignment 1

  • The importance of words in a collection of documents
  • Quiz 10: The basics of word importance
  • Measuring similarity and characterising documents
  • Quiz 11: Computing Jaccard similarities
  • Applying local sensitivity hashing to find similar documents
  • Quiz 12: Finding MinHash signatures

  • Motivation of frequent itemsets in supermarkets
  • Quiz 13: Online advertising
  • Design of association rules for advertisement
  • Quiz 14: Confidence and association rules
  • A-priori algorithm for computing frequent itemsets
  • Quiz 15: Applying the A-priori algorithm
  • Activity 9: Implementation of the A-priori algorithm

  • Motivation of recommendation systems
  • Collaborative filtering recommendation systems
  • Quiz 16: Collaborative filtering
  • Content-based recommendation systems
  • Quiz 17: Content-based systems
  • Effectiveness of recommendation systems

  • The Google Ads problem
  • Quiz 18: The Google Ads problem
  • Online algorithms and competitive ratio
  • Quiz 19: The Google Ads problem and competitive ratio
  • The balance algorithm to solve the Google Ads problem
  • Quiz 20: The balance algorithm
  • Activity 11: The greedy and the balance algorithms

  • Challenges and queries for data streams
  • Quiz 21: Queries
  • Sampling streams
  • Quiz 22: Sampling
  • Determining distinct users of web pages
  • Quiz 23: Counting distinct elements
  • Activity 12: Counting distinct elements
  • Spam filtering using hashing
  • Quiz 24: Impact of number of hash functions
  • Major assignment 2
  • Course summary
  • Post-course survey

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