Data Analysis at Scale in the Cloud

Course taught at Duke MIDS, Spring 2020-2022 by Noah Gift.

• This is the course syllabus.
• These are the projects in the course
• This the week by week calendar
• This is the rubric for grading assignments
• This is the grading for the course
• This is the FAQ
• A complete online book with screencast videos is available here.
• Coursera Course, Building Cloud Computing Solutions at Scale Specialization, can be found here: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/building-cloud-computing-solutions-at-scale

Guest Lecture 2022-Async

GPT 3:

• Book: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/gpt-3/9781098113612/
• Interview: https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/52-weeks-of/021822022VIDEOPAIML/
• Shubham Saboo
• Sandra Kublik

Prequel Material

These resources could be helpful before starting this course.

Duke/Coursera: Foundations of Data Engineering Course (Launching early 2022)

Course1: Python and Pandas for Data Engineering

Course2: Linux and Bash for Data Engineering

Github Repos for Projects in Course

Week1: Using Linux

• Lesson 1: Using Linux Shell Lab
• Lesson 2: How shell piping works
• Lesson 3: Using SSH

Week2: Using Bash

• Lesson 1: Create and Use .bashrc
• Lesson 2: Sourcing shell variables from a script
• Lesson3: Using stdout and stdin

Week3: Building Bash Scripts

• Lesson 1: Build a for loop in Bash
• Lesson 2: Truncate large files with Bash
• Lesson 3: Building a command-line tool for data processing
• Lesson 4: Build Bash CLI with options

Week4: Composing File and Data Management Solutions with Linux

• Lesson 1: Understand the search commands
• Lesson 2: Setting permissions
• Lesson 3: Using regex to process text from file
• Lesson 4: Search the filesystem with find

Course3: Python and SQL for Data Engineering

Course4: Building Data Engineering Solutions with Python for Web Applications, Command-Line Tools and Notebooks

Sequel Material

These resources could be helpful after starting this course.

Duke/Coursera: Applied Data Engineering Course (Launching late 2022)

Github Repos Referenced Duke Coursera Course

Course 1: Cloud Computing Foundations

• Practice Markdown
• Github Actions-Pytest
• Google App Engine Continuous Delivery
• Hello World Flask
• Hugo Continuous Delivery on AWS

Course 2: Cloud Computing Building Blocks

• Lint Dockerfile
• [Flask Change Microservice]

Lecture Topics:

Getting Started: [Week1]

• Getting Started

Cloud Computing Foundations: [Week2]

• Cloud Computing Foundations

Virtualization and Containers: [Week3 & Week 4]

• Containers, Virtualization and Elasticity

Challenges and Opportunities in Distributed Computing: [Week 5 & Week 6]

• Distributed Computing

Cloud Storage [Week 7 & Week 8]

• Cloud Storage

Serverless [Week 9 & Week 10]

• Serverless

Managed ML Systems, Big Data and Edge Computer Vision [Week 11 & Week 12 & Week 13]

• Managed ML Systems
• Edge Computer Vision Notebooks and Code

General

• Key Terms
• (Q&A) Question Answer

Student Example Projects

• 434 Analytics Application Development by Steve Depp
• 462 Computer Vision by Steve Depp

A practical guide to Data Science, Machine Learning Engineering and Data Engineering

Read Cloud Computing for Data Book

Next Steps: Take Coursera MLOps Course

• Take the Specialization
• Cloud Computing Foundations
• Cloud Virtualization, Containers and APIs
• Cloud Data Engineering
• Cloud Machine Learning Engineering and MLOps

Text and Code License

The text and code content of notebooks and documents is released under the CC-BY-NC-ND license