Week 12 (Mon, Nov 20-Fri, Nov 24) – Dealing with Scale
- Mon, Nov 20 : Class: Too Much Stuff, ICE
- Wed, Nov 22 : Class: High Dimensions
- Fri, Nov 24 : No Class: Thanksgiving
- Reading: Week 12 – Dealing with Scale
- Discussion 12: Scale (first post due 11/21)
- Seek and Find 12: Too Much Stuff (due 11/24)
- Design Challenge : DC2 – Final (due 11/26)
Last week, you got by without me – hopefully making lots of progress on Design Challenge 2, and learning about text visualization, and getting some practice with a design exercise.
Last week, I was at a workshop on bridging databases and visualization. It is in some ways very appropriate to this week’s topics.
This week, we’ll talk about scalability. It’s been lurking the whole time, and we’ll discuss it head on. Monday we’ll talk about dealing with large data sets. Wednesday we’ll talk about high dimensional data sets.
No class Friday because it’s a holiday.
Learning Goals (for this week)
- Appreciate the kinds of challenges that arise as data and problems grow in scale.
- Be aware of some of the strategies available to combat scalability issues (in terms of design, not necessarily in terms of implementation)
- Have awareness of the pros and cons of key strategies (such as dimensionality reduction and sampling)
