Announcements

• HW3 due 3/2 @ 11:59PM. Tag your submission.

• No quizzes. There will be HW4 and possibly HW5.

• Into the wild. Kaggle competitions, UCLA DataFest, Chapman University DataFest, …

• M280 in spring quarter. Placeholder for BIOSTAT 257. Required for doctoral students. It focuses on algorithms (in statistical computing). Topics: numerical linear algebra, optimization algorithms (Newton, EM, MM), convex optimization, and so on.

Today

• Docker (cont’d).

• Distributed data analysis using Hadoop+Spark.