Course wiki for INFO319

This course plans will be further detailed and more readings added throughout the semester.

 

Background

Some background for the new course:

• Course description: The formal description of the course as it currently appears in the university course list.
• Context: Practical settings and formal requirements for the course, including the student's backgrounds, session lengths, semester outline, etc.

Contents

Some central planning tasks:

• Sessions: Information about sessions covered in the course.
• Readings: Information about books and articles used in the course.
• Essay: Information about essay.
• Student project: Information about the student programming project.
• Tools: Which tools should we include/teach/introduce as part of the course?
• Exercises: Proposals for exercises to run as part of the course, tied to the course themes and preferably using the tools, as well as which data to run the exercises on.
• Literature: Proposals and ideas for literature we can use in the course - preferrably explicitly tied to the themes.

Prerequisites

The course will build on the introductory and intermediate courses in big data technologies. If you register for the course without practical / programming skills, you are responsible for picking up the necessary background knowledge and skills on your own.

Requirements

You must attend 80% of the course sessions, and you must submit a written individual essay and a student group project by the given deadlines. Two of the sessions, the essay presentations on Thursday 2018-09-13 and programming project presentations on Thursday 2018-10-11, are mandatory.

Exam information

• Written individual essay, submission deadline 2018-10-13 1400, digitally through Inspera.
• Student group project, submission deadline 2018-12-02 0000, digitally through Inspera.
• Final exam, on 2018-12-17.

Responsible

Associate Professor Vimala Nunavath (vimala.nunavath@uia.no) will lead the course in the autumn of 2018. For questions that are not strictly personal, always use the discussion forum (requires login) at mitt.uib.no. If I receive general questions about INFO319 by email, I will answer them in the forum anyway, so it is fastest to post them directly there.

 

Contact: vimala.nunavath@uia.no