CS246
Mining Massive Data Sets
Winter 2012
The course will discuss data mining and machine learning algorithms for analyzing very large amounts of data. The emphasis will be on Map Reduce as a tool for creating parallel algorithms that can process very large amounts of data.
Announcements:
- 1/09: The first class will be held at 9.30am on Monday 1/9, in Gates B01. We look forward to seeing you there!
- 1/09: First Gradiance quiz has been posted. You have till 1/25 to solve it.
- 1/09: Homework 0 -- a tutorial on how to setup and use Hadoop has been posted. See handouts.
- 1/10: Hadoop tutorial and debugging session will be held from 2:15pm to 3:05pm Jan 11th in Huang 018.
- 1/11: First problem set posted. It will be due on January 25, 2012 at 9:30 AM. See handouts.
- 1/27: Second problem set posted. See handouts.
- 2/2: Gradiance Quizz #4 is online. It will be due on February 9 at 11:59pm.
- 2/9: Gradiance Quizz #5 is online. It is on Recommendation Systems, and it will be due on February 16 at 11:59pm.
- 2/22: Gradiance Quizz #7 is online. It is will be due on March 1 at 11:59pm.
- 3/3: CS246 Final Exam Logistics:
*** NON-SCPD students:
Final exam is on 3/19/2012 8:30 AM -- 11:30 AM.
Students with last names A-L meet in Gates B01, lastnames M-Z meet in Nvidia Aud.
Exam is open book, open laptop but *no* WiFi.
*** SCPD students:
You have to take the exam on 3/19 (but at any time during the day). Duration of the exam is 3h.
SCPD students have to take the exam remotely. Please do *not* come to Stanford.
SCPD will take care of sending and collecting the PDF of your example to/from the proctor. Send the email address of your proctor to scpd-distribution@lists.stanford.edu.
After you take the exam make sure your proctor sends (PDF/fax) back the exam to SCPD right away. Exams that come in late will not be considered/graded.
- 3/10: The last Gradiance Quizz is online. It is on Data Streams, and will be due on March 16 at 11:59pm.
Course information:
Instructor:
Jure Leskovec
Office Hours: Tuesdays 9-10am, Gates 418
Lectures:
Mondays & Wednesdays 9:30AM - 10:45AM in Gates B01
Watch video lectures on SCPD (any Stanford student can see them here)
Teaching Assistants:
Juthika Dabholkar (juthika)
Office Hours: Mondays 11-12:30pm, Gates B24B
Aditya Ramesh (aramesh1)
Office Hours: Tuesdays 4-5:30pm, Gates B24A
Keith Siilats (siilats)
Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:30-2:00pm, Gates B28
Lu Li (lululi)
Office Hours: Wednesday 4:30-6:00pm, Gates B26A
Pierre Kreitmann (pmk)
Office Hours: Thursdays 10-11:30am, Gates B24A
Cherian Mathew (cherianm)
Office Hours: Thursdays 6:30-8pm, Gates B26A
Bahman Bahmani (bahman)
Office Hours: Fridays 9:15-10:45am, Bytes Cafe
Communication:
You can reach us at cs246-win1112-staff@lists.stanford.edu
Use Piazza to post class related questions: http://piazza.com/class#winter2012/cs246
(Piazza requires @stanford.edu email address to register. If you do not have @stanford.edu address, send us email with your email address and we will add you to Piazza.)
Previous versions of the course
CS246: Winter 2011
CS345a: Winter 2010