Session 2 - Big Data for emergency management

Date: Friday August 21st

Papers:

• Emani, C. K., Cullot, N., & Nicolle, C. (2015). Understandable big data: A survey. Computer science review, 17, 70-81. File:EmaniEtAl2015-UnderstandableBigData-ASurvey-ComputerScienceReview.pdf
• By STEVE LOHR, The Age of Big Data, the newyork times, FEB. 11, 2012, [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sunday-review/big-datas-impact-in-the-world.html]]

Suitable readings:

• Carlos Castillo's book Big Crisis Data chapters 2-11.
• Kitchin chapters 4 and 10.
• Supplementary paper: Big Data: The Management Revolution, by McAfee and Brynjolsson [[1]]

Topics:

• Introduction
• Follow up:
  • about the themes
  • about the essays
  • about the projects

Student preparations / presentations:

• Presentations by you:
  • From Castillo book,
    • chapter 1: Data
    • chapter 2: volume
    • chapter 3: vagueness
    • chapter 4: variety
    • chapter 5: virality
    • chapter 6: velocity
    • chapter 7: volunteers
    • chapter 8: veracity
    • chapter 9: validity
    • chapter 10: visualization
    • chapter 11: privacy and ethics
    • chapter 12: Conclusions and outlook

• Student names with chapter allocation can be found in Canvas. In the allocated chapters, if there is more than one student is listed, that means those students have to share the chapter sections equally and present.

• A good tutorial:
  • Apache Spark Introduction - TutorialsPoint

Slides:

Session-2: See canvas

Practical session: File:Apache spark Installation.pdf

Other links:

• Erik Brynjolfsson on YouTube
• Rob Kitchin on YouTube