Quizzes

I want to make sure you do a close read of the papers/ text assigned

I know that is not particularly well liked

so I made it open notes/book

flexible about due dates for people's schedules.

Crawling the web in each assignment

the crawl in assignment 02 was designed to help you get a grip on the scale of crawling and the importance of making fast inner loops

the crawl in assignment 03 was only as a toy assignment to use MapReduce

the crawl in assignment 04 was to really use the horsepower of MapReduce

Assignment 05 will not have a crawl

Assignment 06 may or may not have a crawl depending on your choice

Office Hours

I absolutely have them and am available

I may be speaking too fast.

Please ask for clarification if I am

More advance notice wanted

I posted all the assignments online for the rest of the class

Request for PDF version of lectures

Those are online, as are QuickTime, and HTML versions of the notes

I stopped doing audio b/c it was too much work and no one seemed to be downloading them.

A couple reminders about real-world-ness of this

There was the Google OpenHouse that I got us invites to

We are using a real Amazon Hadoop cluster for this assignment

We will look at some new technologies in the last couple weeks

A sample grade