Stanford CS341: Project in Mining Massive Data Sets (Spring 2015)

CS341

Project in Mining Massive Data Sets

Spring 2016

CS341 is an advanced project based course. Students will work on data mining and machine learning algorithms for analyzing very large amounts of data. Both interesting big datasets as well as computational infrastructure (large MapReduce cluster) will be provided by course staff.

Announcements:

6/07: As announced earlier, the final reports are due 11:59PM on Wednesday, June 8. The reports should be emailed as PDF or docx to cs341-spr1516-staff@lists.stanford.edu
Relevant Piazza post: 1.
6/01: Final presentations are 4-7:15pm June 2 (Thursday) in Gates 415. Dinner will be served. All teams should send their presentations to Apaar (apaars@stanford.edu) by 11:59PM Wednesday, June 1.
Schedule for the presentations. Relevant Piazza posts: 1.
4/28: Midterm presentations are May 2 (Monday) and May 4 (Wednesday). All teams should send their presentations to Apaar (apaars@stanford.edu) by 11:59PM Sunday, May 1.
Schedule for the presentations. Relevant Piazza posts: 1, 2.
4/13: The date for midterm presentation, final presentation and report is updated.
Link to the schedule.
4/06: Tutorial: EC2, data management and clusters on AWS (by Apaar).
Link to the Google Doc.
3/31: Please sign up on Piazza!
Link to the Piazza page.
3/30: Tutorial: Getting Started with Amazon Web Services (by Apaar).
Link to the Google Doc.
Before Spring quarter: Slides and contact information for the various projects proposed at the March 3, 2016 Infosession can be found here. Project proposals are due March 18, 2016. Mail to cs341-spr1516-staff at lists dot stanford dot edu. For more information see Introductory Slides.

Instructors:

Chris Re (chrismre@cs.stanford.edu)

Anand Rajaraman (datawocky@gmail.com)

Jeff Ullman (ullman@gmail.com)

Andreas Paepcke (paepcke@cs.Stanford.edu)

Rok Sosic (rok@cs.stanford.edu)

Jure Leskovec (jure@cs.stanford.edu)

Class meetings:

Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30PM - 5:50PM in Rm. 380-380Y.

This is a project course. There will be only a few weekly lectures, and only one or two introductory homeworks. We will spend the quarter working in teams on different large scale data mining related projects. Teams will individually meet with the assigned mentor.

Teaching assistant:

Apaar Sadhwani (apaars@stanford.edu)
Office Hours: upon request (send me an email).

Communication:

You can reach us at cs341-spr1516-staff@lists.stanford.edu
Use Piazza to post class related questions: https://piazza.com/stanford/spring2016/cs341

Previous versions of the course:

CS341: Spring 2013

CS341: Spring 2012

CS341: Spring 2011

Acknowledgment:

The course is generously supported by Amazon by giving us access to their EC2 platform.