Week 1:

MapReduce
Link Analysis -- PageRank

Homework: Soft Deadline: Monday Sept. 28, 2015, 11:59PM; Hard Deadline: Monday Nov. 2, 2015, 11:59PM.

Readings: Sections 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, and 5.2.

Week 2:

Locality-Sensitive Hashing -- Basics + Applications
Distance Measures
Nearest Neighbors
Frequent Itemsets

Homework: Soft Deadline: Monday Oct. 5, 2015, 11:59PM; Hard Deadline: Monday Nov. 2, 2015, 11:59PM.

Readings: Sections 3.1-3.5, 6.1-6.4, 12.4.

Week 3:

Data Stream Mining
Analysis of Large Graphs

Homework: Soft Deadline: Monday Oct. 12, 2015, 11:59PM; Hard Deadline: Monday Nov. 2, 2015, 11:59PM.

Readings: Sections 4.1-4.6, 10.1-10.5.

Week 4:

Recommender Systems
Dimensionality Reduction

Homework: Soft Deadline: Monday Oct. 19, 2015, 11:59PM; Hard Deadline: Monday Nov. 2, 2015, 11:59PM.

Readings: Chapter 9, Sections 11.2-11.4.

Week 5:

Clustering
Computational Advertising

Homework: Soft Deadline: Monday Oct. 26 2015, 11:59PM; Hard Deadline: Monday Nov. 2, 2015, 11:59PM.

Readings: Sections 7.1-7.4, Chapter 8.

Week 6:

Support-Vector Machines
Decision Trees
MapReduce Algorithms

Homework: Soft Deadline: Monday Nov. 2, 2015, 11:59PM; Hard Deadline: Monday Nov. 2, 2015, 11:59PM (i.e., no extensions on this homework)

Readings: Sections 2.3, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.6, 9.2.7, 12.1.3, 12.2, 12.3.

Week 7:

More About Link Analysis --  Topic-specific PageRank, Link Spam.
More About Locality-Sensitive Hashing

Homework: Soft Deadline: Sunday Nov. 8, 2015, 11:59PM; Hard Deadline: Sunday Nov. 8, 2015, 11:59PM.(Note: no extensions, and due Sunday rather than Monday, so we can start the finals and people can see the solutions to this HW while they study for the final).

Readings: Sections 3.6, 3.7, 3.9, 5.3-5.5.

Week 8:

Catch up week

Week 9:

Finals open Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, 00:01AM and close Sunday Nov. 15, 2015, 11:59PM.

* Note: All times are Pacific Time, which is GMT -7:00 up to Sunday Nov. 1, 2015 and GMT -8:00 after that.