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Question Paper Code : X10308

B.E./B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS NOVEMBER /DECEMBER 2020/ APRIL / MAY 2021

Sixth/ Seventh Semester

Computer Science and Engineering

CS8091 BIG DATA ANALYTICS

(Common to: Information Technology)

(Regulations 2017)
Time: 3 Hours Answer ALL Questions Max. Marks 100
PART- A (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)

1. List the main characteristics of Big Data

2. Why HDFS preferred to RDBMS?
3. State Bayes theorem
4. What is the application of clustering in medical domain?
5. What is Frequent item set?
6. Differentiate between Collaborative and Content based Recommendation
7. Define decaying window
8. What are the technical complexities of analyzing graphs?
9. What is Key value data store?
10. What is Graph database?

PART- B (5 x 13 = 65 Marks)

11. a) (i) Explain the management of computing resources and the management of 4
the data across the network of storage nodes in High performance
architecture
(ii) Write short notes on the following programming model: 9
1. HDFS
2. MapReduce
3. YARN
OR
b) (i) Brief about the characteristics of Big data Applications 5
(ii) Explain the role of Big Data Analytics in the following: 8
1. Credit Fraud Detection
2. Clustering and data segmentation
3. Recommendation engines
4. Price modeling
12. a) (i) Brief about K-means clustering with example 8
(ii) Explain the several decision that the practitioner must make for the 5
following parameters in K-means clustering:
1. Object attributes
2. Units of measures
3. Rescaling
OR
b) Write short notes on the following Decision Tree: 13
1. ID3 algorithm
2. C4.5
3. CART
4. Evaluation of Decision Tree

13. a) Explain Knowledge based and Hybrid Recommendation system in detail 13

OR
b) Explain the Apriori algorithm for mining frequent item sets with an example 13

14. a) (i) Explain the Count distinct problem and Flajolet-Martin algorithm in 7
stream
(ii)Explain in detail about the Alon–Matias-Szegedy Algorithm for 6
estimating second moments in stream
OR
b) (i) Explain in detail about the Sampling in Data stream 9
(ii)Brief about the features of a graph analytics platform to be considered for 4
various Big data applications

15. a) (i) Write short notes on features of Hive and Sharding 8

(ii) Explain the impact of Big data on the Blogs 5
OR
b) Explain the following Statistical Methods for Evaluation in R: 13
1. Hypothesis Testing
2. Difference of means
3. Type I and Type II errors
4. Power and Sample size
5. ANOVA

PART- C (1 x 15 = 15 Marks)

16. a) Consider the E-Commerce Recommendation System. Analyze and indicate 15

suitability of the type of Recommendation system and explain the same.
OR
b) Analyze and explain the Real time analytics platform for Sentiment analysis 15
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