Lecture Notes and Handouts

Lecture material is mostly home-grown, partly taken with permission and courtesy from Professor Shih-Wei Liao of NTU. Lecture notes are placed in here for your reference AFTER the class.  Some interesting Web resources are placed in the reference page.

Lecture Notes

• Lecture00: Course information (00CourseInfo.pdf)
• Lecture01: Big Data: Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities (01Introduction.pdf)
• Lecture02: General Purpose Computing Systems I : Hadoop and MapReduce (02HadoopMR.pdf)
• Lecture03: General Purpose Computing Systems II : Apache Spark (03Spark.pdf)
• Lecture04: Big Data Storage 1: Distributed File System, Google File System(GFS) and Colossus(GSF2) (04GFSandColossus.pdf)
• Lecture05: Big Data Storage 2: Hadoop Distributed File System (HDSF) (05HDFS.pdf)
• Lecture06: Big Data Storage 3: New Storage Technologies (06NewStorageTechnologies.pdf)
• Lecture07: Structured Big Data 1: Bigtable and HBase (07BigtableAndHBase.pdf)
• Lecture08: Structured Big Data 2: NoSQL, NewSQL and Distributed SQL Systems (08NoNewDistributedSQL.pdf)
• Lecture09: Large-Scale Graph Processing 1: Pregel, Apache Hama/Giraph and Others (09BigGraph1.pdf)