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T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F S T R AT H C LY D E

CS989B Big Data Fundamentals

Dr Martin Goodfellow
martin.h.goodfellow@strath.ac.uk
Joseph El Gemayel
joseph.el-gemayel@strath.ac.uk
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Sessions

• Strathclyde Sessions
• 15th December
• 18th December
• 8th January
• 15th January

• Local Counsellor Sessions

• Ameen Altajer

• December 16th, 23rd and January 6th, 13th & 20th

• 7 – 9 pm
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Outline

• Week 1: Intro to Python

• Week 2: Exploring and Managing Data
• Pandas
• Descriptive statistics
• Missing data

• Week 3: Data Visualisation

• Visualising distributions with single and multiple variables
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Outline

• Week 4 Part 1: Unsupervised Learning

• Distance Measures
• Hierarchical Clustering

• K-means Clustering

• Association Rules

• Week 4 Part 2: Supervised Learning

• Classification Tasks

• Example Methods
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Class Structure (Asynchronous)

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• Mini Lectures
• Readings
• Discussions/Tutorial Questions
• Quizzes
• Practical Exercises
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Class Structure (Synchronous)

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• Mini Lectures support

• Tutorials
• Practical Exercises/Coursework Support
• Optional unless otherwise stated
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Assessment
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• Coursework 100%:
• Released: 18/12/2020
• Due: 27/01/2021

• Aim: to provide deeper understanding of appropriate methodological approaches to processing

and analysing noisy data; and to encourage appreciation of the challenges involved in data
analysis.

• You will need to choose a dataset and use techniques introduced in the class to find some
interesting questions or problems to answer.
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https://mattermost.cis.strath.ac.uk/learning/channels/cs989b---fintech
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