| Week | Session | Topics/Slides | Preparation | Project Work Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tues & Thurs, Mar 10 & 12, 2015 | What's in the course? Intro to all 3 main topics! |
Look at the Syllabus First night - Intro slides |
Suggest - for second night - Think of a project to talk about... |
Second night - Discussion of possible projects - continued And - MongoDB Intro, plus 2 short presentations on Moodle And - Using the DB's on Mike's server |
Read a bit into the MongoDB book! | A sketch of the project? | ||
| 2 | All on Tues, Mar 17, this week | MongoDB - 1: Learning to use it | MongoDB book - Ch 3 - 8 Read about Hadoop - See Moodle "Hadoop from Data Science Book" |
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| 3 | All on Thurs, Mar 26, in Indy, this week | MongoDB - 2: Working on it with real data | MongoDB book - Ch 9 - 15 That would divide the rest of it in half, would cover Replication and all of Sharding except admin. Followup - Look at Byzantine Generals |
Project progress report - Discuss the requirements / architecture |
| 4 | Tues & Thurs, Mar 31 & Apr 2 | MongoDB - 3: Finish last week's discussion - sharding, etc. Applying it to data mining (discussion) |
MongoDB book - Ch 16 - 23 That's all the Admin stuff |
Project progress report Try 1-minute installation of a sharded cluster (p 232). |
| 5 | Tues & Thurs, Apr 7 & 9 | PostgreSQL - 1: Learning to use it | PostgreSQL book - Ch 1 - 5 Plus - look at Colorado State PostgreSQL intro slides, on Moodle. |
Project progress report - How to set up the DB using PostgreSQL? |
| 6 | Tues & Thurs, Apr 14 & 16 | PostgreSQL - 2: Working on it with real data | PostgreSQL book - Ch 6 - 10 | |
| 7 | Tues & Thurs, Apr 21 & 23 | PostgreSQL - 1: Applying it to data mining | Links - see same slides as last week, additional refs at the end. | |
| 8 | Tues & Thurs, Apr 28 & 30 | PostgreSQL - 1: Applying it to your project | ||
| 9 | Tues & Thurs, May 5 & 7 | |||
| 10 | Tues & Thurs, May 12 & 14 | Project demos and lessons learned | ||