Title:Explorative Analytics of an Evolving Citation Network using Apache Spark

Due: Feb. 16 Tuesday, 5:00PM 

Submission: Via Canvas, Individual submission 

Objectives

The goal of this programming assignment is to enable you to gain experience in:

* Installing and using analytics tools such as HDFS and Apache Spark

* Performing analytics over a large-scale temporal network

Please visit Canvas Assignments page for more details

Title: Detecting the Most Popular Topics from Live Twitter Message Streams using the Lossy Counting Algorithm with Apache Storm

Due: March 9, Tuesday 5:00PM

Submission: via Canvas, Individual submission 

Objectives

The goal of this programming assignment is to enable you to gain experience in:

* Implementing approximate on-line algorithms using a real-time streaming data processing framework

* Understanding and implementing parallelism over a real-time streaming data processing framework

Please visit Canvas Assignments page for more details