DSAN 6000 Sections 01 and 02

Big Data: "When the size of the data itself becomes part of the engineering problem"

Can be processed on single machine?	No	Medium (Parallel Processing)	Big! Parallel + Distributed Processing
Can be processed on single machine?	Yes	Small (Your Laptop)	Medium (Data Streaming)
		Yes	No
		Can be stored on single machine?

This webpage just serves as a hub collecting Jeff’s slides for DSAN 6000: Big Data and Cloud Computing, Fall 2025 at Georgetown University. It is not a replacement for the main course webpage!

Section 01 of the course takes place on Wednesday from 3:30pm to 6:00pm in Walsh 394.

Title	Date
Week 1: Course Overview	Aug 28
Week 2: Cloud Computing	Sep 2
Week 3: Parallelization Concepts	Sep 8
Week 4: DuckDB, Polars, File Formats	Sep 15
Week 5: Data Engineering	Sep 22
Week 6: Introduction to Spark	Sep 29
Week 7: Spark DataFrames and Spark SQL	Oct 6
Week 8: SparkNLP	Oct 20
Week 9: SparkML	Oct 27
Week 10: ETL Pipeline Orchestration with Airflow	Nov 3
Week 11: Vector Databases	Nov 10
Week 12: In-Class Office Hours	Nov 17
Week 13: Serverless and Container Orchestration	Nov 24
Week 14: Final Topics, Review	Dec 1
Week 15: Final Project Presentations	Dec 8