General description

The term “Big Data” describes datasets that are either too big or change too fast or both to be processed on a single computer.

Big Data Processing provides an introduction to systems used to process Big Data. The main focus of the course is programming and engineering big data systems; initially, the course explores general programming primitives that span across big data systems and touches upon distributed systems. Then, the course examines in detail the implementation of data analysis algorithms in Spark, in the context of batch processing applications, and Flink, in the context of streaming applications.

The course is also optional for the Minor “Software Design and Application.”

Learning objectives

After the end of the course, all students should be able to:

Course Organization

Contents

Week Date Topic Teacher Assignment (Deadline)
1 14/11 Course introduction, Big and Fast data, Intro to course PLs GG
1 15/11 The Unix programming environment GG Unix (jupyter, solutions)
2 21/11 Programming for Big Data (1) GG Functional programming: Scala (jupyter, solutions), Python (jupyter, solutions)
2 22/11 Programming for Big Data (2) GG
3 28/11 Distributed Systems JR More reading: Distributed Systems
3 29/11 Distributed Databases and Fileystems JR More reading Distributed Databases, Distributed filesystems
4 5/12 Spark: RDDs and Pair RDDs GG Spark: Scala (jupyter,solutions), Python (jupyter, solutions)
4 6/12 Spark Internals JR
5 12/12 Spark SQL, Spark use cases: Synonyms with Word2Vec, Recommending bands, Predicting pull request merges GG
5 13/12 Live Data Processing GG
6 19/12 Stream processing GG Streaming, solutions (14/1) (Note: Optional for minor students)
6 20/12 Stream processing systems GG
7 8/1 Recap, Answers to recap questions (Quintin van Leersum and Mikhail Epifanov) GG
7 9/1 No lecture

Teachers

  • GG: Georgios Gousios
  • JR: Jan Rellermeyer

TAs

The head TA is Yoshi van den Akker. The TA team is managed by Goshia Migut.

  • Auke Schaap
  • Kanav Anand
  • Chia-Lun Yeh
  • Caspar Krijgsman
  • Danny Plenge
  • Jordi Smit
  • Lisette Veldkamp
  • Yoshi van den Akker

Assignments

You can find the course assignments linked through this page.

For submission, we will use CPM. The course name is TI2736-B: Big Data Processing

The student groups must submit each assignment before 23:59 on the day of the deadline.

Late submission: All submissions must be handed in time, with no exceptions. Any late submission will be discarded and will be graded with 0. In case of provable sickness, please contact the course teacher to arrange a case-specific deadline.

Assessment

Example exam material

Resit policy

There will be an exam-only resit during Q3/4. You are allowed to transfer your assignment grade to the resit as a whole. This means that you will not be able to re-submit individual assignments. Effectively, you can only resit your written exam.

Course resources


The course, by design, touches upon various current technologies; as such, there is no single source of truth. The following is an indicative list of resources where more information can be found.

Bibliography

[1]
J. Laskowski, “Mastering apache spark 2,” 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.gitbook.com/book/jaceklaskowski/mastering-apache-spark/details.
[2]
M. Kleppmann, Designing data-intensive applications. O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2017.
[3]
S. Ryza, U. Laserson, S. Owen, and J. Wills, Advanced analytics with spark: Patterns for learning from data at scale. O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2015.
[4]
H. Karau, A. Konwinski, P. Wendell, and M. Zaharia, Learning spark: Lightning-fast big data analysis. O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2015.
[5]
H. Karau and R. Warren, High performance spark. O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2017.
[6]
B. Chambers and M. Zaharia, Spark: The definitive guide. O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2017.
[7]
T. Akidau, S. Chernyak, and R. Lax, Streaming systems: The what, where, when, and how of large-scale data processing. O’Reilly, 2018.
[8]
C. Martella, R. Shaposhnik, D. Logothetis, and S. Harenberg, Practical graph analytics with apache Giraph. Springer, 2015.
[9]
I. Robinson, J. Webber, and E. Eifrem, Graph databases: New opportunities for connected data. Springer, 2015.