Welcome to the WWW site for the Spring Semester, 2021 CS 649 Big Data: Tools and Methods course at San Diego State University.

• Course Wiki
• Lecture notes
• Assignments
• Reading Assignments
• Course Portal
• Syllabus

• Spark: The Definitive Guide, Matei Zaharia, Bill Chambers Amazon SDSU Library on-line
• Python Data Science Handbook Amazon SDSU Library on-line Notebook Version

• AWS Educate - $100 Student Voucher

• Spark
• Jupyter Notebook

• R Datsets
• Awesome Public Data Sets
• Kaggle
• Google Public Datasets
• AWS Open datasets

• Kaggle Competitions, Datasets, Kernels, Jobs
• The "Joel Test" for Data Science
• UC Berkeley Data Science Text
• 2016 Data Science Salary Survey
• Data Engineering Shortage
• Command Line faster than Hadoop Cluster

• Embarrassing Ways to lose Points on Programs (html) (pdf)