Santa Clara University

Big-Data-MapReduce-Course

Spring 2021

Course Information:

• Graduate School, Leavey School of Business
• Department of Information Systems & Analytics
• Course MSIS 2627: Big Data Modeling & Analytics
• Big-Data-MapReduce Course @ Santa Clara University
• Class meeting dates:
  • Start: March 29, 2021
  • End: June 10, 2021
• Class hours:
  • Monday 7:35 PM - 9:10 PM PST (via Zoom)
  • Wednesday 7:35 PM - 9:10 PM PST (via Zoom)
• Instructor: Mahmoud Parsian
• Class room: online via Zoom
• Office: 216AA, 2nd Floor, Lucas Hall (not used now due to covid-19)
• Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00 pm PST (or by appointment)

Required Books

• 1.PySpark Algorithms Book by Mahmoud Parsian
  • Buy from amazon.com -- PySpark Algorithms Book -- PDF Version
  • Buy from amazon.com -- PySpark Algorithms Book -- Kindle Version
  • Source code @github.com -- PySpark Algorithms Book by Mahmoud Parsian
• 2.Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce by Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer
• 3.Mining of Massive Datasets by Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey D. Ullman

Required Introduction to MapReduce and Spark

• 1. A Very Brief Introduction to MapReduce by Diana MacLean
• 2. Introduction to MapReduce by Mahmoud Parsian

Required Software:

• Apache Spark Site
• Apache Spark Download, Use version 3.0.0+

Syllabus

Midterm Exam:

🍏 Date: Monday, May 3, 2021

🍏 Time: 7:35 PM - 9:10 PM, PST

🍏 Midterm exam is closed book/notes/friends/internet/phone

Final Exam:

🍎 Date: Wednesday, June 9th, 2021

🍎 Time: 5:45 PM - 7:45 PM, PST

🍎 Final exam is closed book/notes/friends/internet/phone

Course Description

The main focus of this class is to cover the following concepts:

• Concepts of Big Data
• Distributed File Systems
• Distributed Computing
• Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
• MapReduce Paradigm
• MapReduce Algorithms
• Scale-out Architectures (using Hadoop, Spark, PySpark)
• Apache Spark
• Use Spark, Py-Spark, and Python to teach MapReduce and distributed computing
• SQL for NoSQL Data, How?
• Amazon Athena
• Amazon Athena, S3, Data Partitioning

Mahmoud Parsian's Latest Books:

Data Algorithms with Spark

PySpark Algorithms

Data Algorithms