BIG Data - MIT Professional Education Online X Programs

Tackling The Challenges of Big Data
Introduction to Big Data
Samuel Madden
Professor and Director of Big Data at CSAIL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BIG
Data
Transport • Medicine • Social Media • Education • Industry
Government • Retail • Science • Personal Tackling the Challenges of Big Data
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Example 1: Medical Costs
MGH Cancer Center !
“Super-Database”!
Largest cancer database in the
world (173,301 patients)!
Based on national tumor registry!
Cross linked with death registry!
Includes billing, reports, labs,
imagery, genome SNPs!
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Question: !
What are the factors
driving costs for lung
cancer patients?!
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Source: Dr. James Michaelson, PhD, MGH, Harvard Medical School!
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Example 2: Shopycat
Recommend Things My Friends Like That Are Compatible With
My Interests
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Example 2: Flight Prediction
EV
EV
EV
K5
K5
NGF
NGF
WIG
How to Predict Flight Delays?
5647PIT
7/5/13 2:10 PM 7/5/13 2:21
Historical Information
5648ABE 7/5/13 12:10 PM 7/5/13 12:00
5651RIC
7/5/13 3:40 PM 7/5/13 3:56
Weather
96PDT
7/5/13 8:15 PM 7/5/13 11:35
96PDX
7/5/13 6:25 PM 7/5/13 6:26
Availability of Planes
4BFM
7/5/13 3:10 PM 7/5/13 3:18
64ISW
7/5/13 4:10 PM 7/5/13 4:16
Other Concurrent Flights
8416PWM 7/5/13 12:01 PM 7/5/13 12:37
Radar
Tackling the Challenges of Big Data
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Example: Flight Inconsistency!
Source: Luna Dong!
FlightView!
FlightAware!
Orbitz!
6:15 PM!
6:22 PM!
6:15 PM!
9:40 PM!
8:33 PM!
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9:54 PM!
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Example 2: Flight Prediction!
EV
EV
EV
K5
K5
NGF
NGF
WIG
How to Predict Flight Delays?
5647PIT
7/5/13 2:10 PM 7/5/13 2:21
Historical Information
5648ABE 7/5/13 12:10 PM 7/5/13 12:00
5651RIC
7/5/13 3:40 PM 7/5/13 3:56
Weather
96PDT
7/5/13 8:15 PM 7/5/13 11:35
96PDX
7/5/13 6:25 PM 7/5/13 6:26
Departure Time
4BFM
7/5/13 3:10 PM 7/5/13 3:18
64ISW
7/5/13 4:10 PM 7/5/13 4:16
Concurrent Flights
8416PWM Other
7/5/13
12:01 PM 7/5/13 12:37
Radar
Tackling the Challenges of Big Data
PM
PM
PM
PM
PM
PM
PM
PM
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When Do You Have a Big Data Problem?!
•  Too many bytes (Volume)!
•  Too high a rate (Velocity)!
•  Too many sources (Variety)!
•  Non-scalable analysis!
–  Human-intensive!
–  Computer Intensive!
Tackling the Challenges of Big Data
Flight Data!
Mass General
Hospital Data!
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Sources of Big Data
learning
science
transportation
retail
Big
Data
finance
social
entertainment
government
health/medical
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What is this course going to cover?
Taught by experts
in the field! !
•  Case Studies!
•  Ingesting and Integrating Data!
•  Storage and Compute Platforms!
•  Presentation and Visualization!
•  Algorithms & Analytics!
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Tackling the Challenges of Big Data
Regina Barzilay!
John Guttag!
Piotr Indyk!
Tommi Jaakkola!
David Karger!
Security !
Andrew Lo!
& Privacy!
Sam Madden!
Ron Rivest!
Ronitt Rubinfeld!
Daniela Rus!
Michael Stonebraker!
Matei Zaharia!
Nickolai Zeldovich!
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Tackling The Challenges of Big Data
Introduction to Big Data
THANK YOU
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