CS 541: Advanced Data Management

Time: Wednesday 3:20-6:20 PM

Location: Zoom

Instructor: Dong Deng (dong.deng AT rutgers.edu)

Office hours:

Thursdays 4:00pm-5:00pm EST
Office hour by appointment is available, please contact instructor by email.

TA: TBD

office hours: TBD

Announcements

The first class is 09/02

Course Description

This course is designed to introduce graduate students to some advanced topics in data management and data curation, including but not limited to: data integration, data cleaning, data wrangling, and data visualization. Classes will consist of lectures and seminars. There will be two programming assignments, one exam, one project, and seminar presentation.

Lectures

Lectures are held once a week. Attendance at lectures is mandatory and you are expected to show up and participate in discussion. This semester we will teach each other to use open-source data curation tools.

Prerequisites

Students should have taken data structure and algorithm related courses and introductory database courses. If you do not have experience in these subjects and would like to take the course, please email the instructor. Programming experience is assumed.

Grading

Two Programming Assignments: 30%
One Examination: 30%
Presentations: 15%
One Project: 25%

The final grade depends on the percentage of points you have earned, and the definition of letter grades is:

A: 90 – 100
B+: 80 – 89
B: 70 – 79
C+: 60 – 69
C: 50 – 59
F: < 50

Reading Materials

all lecture and seminar discussions are based on readings from the data management literature.

Technology Requirements

To complete the course, students need a laptop, desktop, cellphone, tablet, or other similar devices that can connect to the internet, play videos, and conduct videoaudio communications. Please visit the Rutgers Student Tech Guide page for resources available to all students. If you do not have the appropriate technology for financial reasons, please email Dean of Students deanofstudents@echo.rutgers.edu for assistance. If you are facing other financial hardships, please visit the Office of Financial Aid at https:financialaid.rutgers.edu.

Self-Reporting Absence Application

Students are expected to attend all classes; if you expect to miss one or two classes, please use the University absence reporting website https:sims.rutgers.edussra to indicate the date and reason for your absence. An email is automatically sent to me.

Honor Pledge

The Rutgers honor pledge will be included on all (major) assessments for you to sign: On my honor, I have neither received nor given any unauthorized assistance on this examination (assignment).

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to maintain the highest level of academic integrity. You should be familiar with the university policy on academic integrity. Violations will be reported and enforced according to this policy. Use of external website resources such as Chegg.com or others to obtain solutions to homework assignments, quizzes, or exams is cheating and a violation of the University Academic Integrity policy. Cheating in the course may result in grade penalties, disciplinary sanctions or educational sanctions. Posting homework assignments, or exams, to external sites without the instructor's permission may be a violation of copyright and may constitute the facilitation of dishonesty, which may result in the same penalties as plain cheating.

Student-Wellness Services

Counseling, ADAP & Psychiatric Services (CAPS)

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Disability Services

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Acknowledgements

part of the course materials are adapted from courses taught by Junhao Gan, Guoliang Li, Yufei Tao, and Jiannan Wang.