Course Schedule

Being less concrete further out, the course scheduling is tentative and subject to changes.

Week 1	Mon, Jan 15 MLK day (no class)	Wed, Jan 17 Lec1-Introduction to Big Data Systems
Week 2	Mon, Jan 22 Lec2a-Using AWS Academy, EC2, and Linux shell Assignment 0 out	Wed, Jan 24 Lec2b-Python numeric types
Week 3	Mon, Jan 29 Lec2c-Processes, threads	Wed, Jan 31 Assignment 0 Due at 11:00 am Lec2d-Caching Assignment 1 out
Week 4	Mon, Feb 05 Lec3a-Python parallelism	Wed, Feb 07 Lec3b-Python parallelism (cont.) & Dask
Week 5	Mon, Feb 12 Lec4a-GFS-HDFS	Wed, Feb 14 Assignment 1 Due at 11:00 am Lec4b-MapReduce Assignment 2 out
Week 6	Mon, Feb 19 Spark RDD	Wed, Feb 21 Spark internals and performance
Week 7	Mon, Feb 26 Midterm review	Wed, Feb 28 Assignment 2 Due at 11:00 am Midterm (3pm - 4:45pm) Assignment 3 out	Fri, Mar 01 Project bidding Due at 11:00 am
Week 8	Mon, Mar 04 Spring Recess (no class)	Wed, Mar 06 Spring Recess (no class)
Week 9	Mon, Mar 11 Lec6a-Ray API	Wed, Mar 13 Lec6b-Ray internals
Week 10	Mon, Mar 18 Lec7a-Deep learning systems & caching	Wed, Mar 20 Assignment 3 Due at 11:00 am Lec7b-Model compression	Fri, Mar 22 Project checkpoint 1 Due at 11:00 am
Week 11	Mon, Mar 25 Lec8a-Cloud computing	Wed, Mar 27 Lec8b-Serverless computing
Week 12	Mon, Apr 01 Lec8c-Serverless data analytics	Wed, Apr 03 Lec9-ML for database systems (Learned Index)
Week 13	Mon, Apr 08 Lec10a-Cloud storage systems (AWS S3)	Wed, Apr 10 Lec10b-Cloud storage systems (Amazon Dynamo I)	Fri, Apr 12 Project checkpoint 2 Due at 11:00 am
Week 14	Mon, Apr 15 Lec10c-Cloud storage systems (Amazon Dynamo II)	Wed, Apr 17 Lec10d-Cloud storage systems (serverless functions as a storage)
Week 15	Mon, Apr 22 Work on project (class does not meet)	Wed, Apr 24 Project presentations
Week 16	Mon, Apr 29 Project presentations	Wed, May 01 Project everything Due at 11:59 pm