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=== The Course : 1 ===
=== The Course : 1 ===
http://static.usenix.org/event/osdi04/tech/full_papers/dean/dean.pdf
Hadoop was an early MapReduce system that did away with old database standards, but in the 4 years after it's release, most SQL standards were brought back into the fold. The abstractions are important not just the tools.
MapReduce contributed the following the SQL
* Fault tolerance
* schema-on-read
* user defined functions that don't suck
=== The Course : 2 ===
=== The Course : 2 ===
=== eScience ===
=== eScience ===

Revision as of 16:13, 1 May 2013

https://class.coursera.org/datasci-001/class/index

Introduction

Context

Bill Howe venn diagram. "Danger Zone" is hacking + expertise without statistics.

Mike Driscolls 3 DS skills

  • Statistics
  • Data Munging
  • Visualization

Dimensions

DS is not (or not quite)

  • Business Intelligence
  • Statistics
  • Data(base) Management
  • Visualization
  • Machine Learning

If you're a → You need to learn

  • DBA → unstructured data
  • statistician → data that exceeds memory
  • software engineer → statistical modeling
  • business analyst → algorithms and tradeoffs at scale

The Continuums

  • Tools vs Abstractions
  • Desktop vs cloud
  • hackers vs analysts
  • structures vs statistics

The Course : 1

http://static.usenix.org/event/osdi04/tech/full_papers/dean/dean.pdf

Hadoop was an early MapReduce system that did away with old database standards, but in the 4 years after it's release, most SQL standards were brought back into the fold. The abstractions are important not just the tools.

MapReduce contributed the following the SQL

  • Fault tolerance
  • schema-on-read
  • user defined functions that don't suck

The Course : 2

eScience

Big Data

Guest Lecture : Biomedical Informatics

Logistics

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