ISIT312/912 Big Data Management

Outline

  • Lecturers
  • Subject organization
  • Assessment
  • Contents
  • Software
  • Subject outline
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Lecturers

  • Lecturer: Dr Behnaz Soltani
  • Email: behnazs@uow.edu.au
  • Phone number: 42 395199
  • Office: Building 3, room 112
  • Consultation time:
    • Monday 13.30 - 15.30
    • Tuesday 12.00 - 14.00
  • Lecturer: Dr Janusz R. Getta
  • Email: jrg@uow.edu.au
  • Phone number: 42 214339
  • Office: Building 3, room 210
  • Consultation time:
    • Monday 8.30 - 10.30
    • Wednesday 12.30 - 14.30
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ISIT312/912 Big Data Management

Outline

  • Lecturers
  • Subject organization
  • Assessments
  • Contents
  • Software
  • Subject outline
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Subject organization

  • Session: Spring 2026
  • Credit points: 6
  • Lectures: 13*2 hours
  • Laboratories: 11*2 hours
    • Tuesday 12.30 - 14.30 in 3.126 at Wollongong Campus
    • Tuesday 14.30 - 16.30 in 3.126 at Wollongong Campus
    • Tuesday 16.30 - 18.30 in 3.126 at Wollongong Campus
    • Tuesday 18.30 - 20.30 in 3.126 at Wollongong Campus
    • Wednesday 18.30 - 20.30 in 3.128 at Wollongong Campus
    • Thursday 8.30 - 10.30 in 3.126 at Wollongong Campus
    • Thursday 10.30 - 12.30 in 3.126 at Wollongong Campus
    • Friday 14.30 - 16.30pm in 3.126 at Wollongong Campus
    • Monday 13.30pm - 14.30pm in LP_400-413 at Liverpool Campus
  • There are no laboratory classes in week 1 and week 13 !
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ISIT312/912 Big Data Management

Outline

  • Lecturers
  • Subject organization
  • Assessment
  • Contents
  • Software
  • Subject outline
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Assessment

  • Three assignments, worth 50% (10%+20%+20%) of the total evaluation in the subject
  • Final examination worth 50% of the total evauluation in the subject
  • Final examination will consist of the problems similar to the problems included in the assignments
  • To be eligible to Pass this subject a student must achieve in the final examination a mark of at least 40% of the total evaluation of the final examination. Failure to meet one of the requirement will result in a TF (Technical Fail) grade being given if the overall subject mark is 50% or higher
  • All submissions of coursework (assignments) MUST be done through Moodle site
  • No submission will be accepted through email and/or in a paper form !
  • The subject has an in-class and paper-based final examination
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ISIT312/912 Big Data Management

Outline

  • Lecturers
  • Subject organization
  • Assessment
  • Contents
  • Software
  • Subject outline
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Contents

  • BigData, Cluster Computing, Introduction to Hadoop
  • Hadoop Distributed Storage System (HDFS) and MapReduce Data Processing Model
  • MapReduce applications
  • Hive
  • Conceptual and logical Data Warehouse Design
  • SQL for Data Warehousing
  • Physical Data Warehouse design, Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
  • HBase
  • Apache Pig
  • Spark fundamentals and data processing
  • Streaming data and advanced Spark operations
  • Very short introduction to Apache Kafka
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ISIT312/912 Big Data Management

Outline

  • Lecturers
  • Subject organization
  • Assessment
  • Contents
  • Software
  • Subject outline
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Software

  • Virtual machine BigData-Ubuntu22.04.4-Hadoop3.4.0-P3-Spark3.5.6 with Hadoop, Snakebite and Spark
  • Virtual machine BigData-Ubuntu22.04.4-Hadoop3.4.0-Hive4.0.1.ova with Hadoop and Hive
  • Virtual machine BigData-Ubuntu22.04.4-Hadoop3.4.0-Hbase2.6.1-hdfs.ova with Hadoop and HBase
  • Virtual machine BigData-Ubuntu22.04.4-Hadoop3.4.0-Pig0.17.0.ova with Hadoop and Pig
  • The links to ova images of virtual machines are available on Moodle in a section Resources
  • Please use Chrome browser when downloading the ova files !
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Software

  • Conceptual modeling tool UMLet 15.1
  • A link to UMLet 15.1 is available on Moodle in a section Resources
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ISIT312/912 Big Data Management

Outline

  • Lecturers
  • Subject organization
  • Assessment
  • Contents
  • Software
  • Subject outline
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Subject outline

  • All important information related to the subject is included in the Subject outline available on Moodle
  • You MUST read the Subject outline for ISIT312/ISIT912 Big Data Mangement !
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