Algorithm design techniques for modern data sets arising in, for example, data mining, web analytics, epidemic spreads, search engines and social networks. Topics may include: data mining, hashing, streaming, clustering, recommendation systems, link analysis, dimensionality reduction, online, social networking, game theoretic and probabilistic algorithms. Prerequisite(s): COMP 2804 with a minimum grade of B+. Lecture three hours a week. [0.5 credits]
Algorithm design techniques for modern data sets arising in, for example, data mining, web analytics, epidemic spreads, search engines and social networks. Topics may include: data mining, hashing, streaming, clustering, recommendation systems, link analysis, dimensionality reduction, online, social networking, game theoretic and probabilistic algorithms. Prerequisite(s): COMP 2804 with a minimum grade of B+. Lecture three hours a week. [0.5 credits]