Date	Topic
9/16	Overview of topics & class mechanics
9/23	Databases and Distributed  Systems in a Nutshell
9/30	Mini-tutorial on MapReduce and Hadoop Mini-tutorial on Amazon Web Services Read: "MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters" Apache Hadoop website Amazon Cloud Architectures
10/7	CAP Applications Links: Data Mining Predictive Analytics Data sets: UCI machine learning repository AWS Datasets Various Public Datasets
10/14
10/21
10/28
11/4
10/11
11/18
11/25
12/2
12/9	Thanksgiving break
12/3
12/17

CAP motivation & applications

• Competing on Analytics
• Petascale computational systems.
• The SDSS SkyServer
• CERN LHC Data Challenge
• Crime pattern detection
  

Parallel programming languages/primitives

• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
• Dryad: Distributed Data-Parallel Programs from Sequential Building Blocks 
• Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing 

Big data stores

• The Google File System 
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data. 
• HadoopDB
• Hive
• HBase
  

Data Mining

• Data Mining
• Predictive Analytics
• Overview of Data Mining Techniques
• Data Mining Tutorial
• Information Extraction Survey

Languages, Tools, and Services

1. R Language
2. Mapreduce Mahout
3. Oracle Data Mining
4. PSPP
5. RapidMiner
6. RHIPE
7. Weka
8. OpenCalais
9. Orchestr8

Research: Database Support 

• MAD skills
• Monte Carlo DB
• RIOT
• Forecasting Queries
• SQL Queries over Unstructured Text Databases

Data Sets:

• UCI machine learning repository
• AWS Datasets
• Public Datasets