CS246
Mining Massive Data Sets
Winter 2013
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:

Important course information will be posted on this web page and announced in class. You are responsible for all material that appears here and should check this page for updates frequently.


Course information:

Lectures:

Tuesday & Thursday 9:30AM - 10:45AM in NVidia Auditorium, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center.

Watch video lectures on SCPD (any Stanford student can see them here).

Instructor:

Jure Leskovec
Office Hours: Wednesdays 9-10am, Gates 418

TAs and Office hours (Starting from the second week, Jan 14):

Sean Choi (Head TA)
Office Hours: Thursdays 3:00-4:00pm, Location: Gates B24 B

Sumit Arrawatia
Office Hours: Fridays 2:30-3:30pm, Location: Gates B26 A

Justin Chen (no Google Hangout)
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-1:00pm, Location: Gates B24 A

Dingyi Li
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:30-4:30pm, Location: Gates B26 A

Anshul Mittal
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00-12:00pm, Location: Gates B24 B

Rose Marie Philip
Office Hours: Mondays 12:00-1:00pm, Location: Gates B24 B

Sebastien (Robi) Robaszkiewicz
Office Hours: Mondays 4:00-5:00pm, Location: Gates 3rd floor, atrium

Le Yu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 4:00-5:00pm, Location: Gates B26 B

Tongda Zhang
Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:00-4:00pm, Location: Gates B26 B

Additional Weekend Office Hours
Saturdays, Sundays 10:00-11:00am, Google Hangout Only

Email address:

You can reach us at cs246-win1213-staff@lists.stanford.edu
Use Piazza to post class related questions: https://piazza.com/class#winter2013/cs246
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Previous versions of the course

CS246: Winter 2012

CS246: Winter 2011

CS345a: Winter 2010