Time:
Fridays 10 AM to 12 PM
Location:
CS Conference Room
Professors
sfchang_AT_ee.columbia.edu,
212-854-6894
Office
hours: Friday 2-3 PM, CEPSR 709
julia_AT_cs.columbia.edu, 212-939-7004
Office
hours: Monday 3:15-4:15 PM, CSB 450
Teaching
Assistant
Rose
Sloan
rsloan_AT_cs.columbia.edu
Office
hours: Tuesday 2-3 PM, CEPSR 7LW3
Students
who would like to be considered for registration for this course must attend
the first lecture.
The
instructors will approve registration for a selected group of students after
reviewing the first class attendance and reviewing essay responses that will be
written on the first day of class.
Announcements | Academic Integrity | Description
Readings | Resources | Requirements | Syllabus
This
course is designed for participants in the NSF IGERT program "From Data to
Solutions". Students in the seminar
may be IGERT Trainees, IGERT affiliates, or other students having the
permission of one of the instructors.
The course will consist of a series of presentations by faculty and
staff at Columbia and CUNY who will describe interesting problems involving
very large amounts of data (text, audio, image, video) that require
interdisciplinary collaboration with faculty and students in Computer Science,
Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Psychology, Biomedical Informatics,
Business and Journalism. Students taking
the course will complete short reading assignments for each class, turn in 1.5-2
page reports on each of the presentations, and prepare a final longer report on
one of the problems presented as a final project. Actual experimental implementations will be
welcome, but not mandatory. Some proposed projects may be selected and invited
to continue in the following semester or summer under the supervision of the
instructors or other participating faculty or researchers from industry. There are no prerequisites for the course and
no exams; students will be selected for the class based upon a questionnaire to
be administered the first day of class.
Note that students who are members of the IGERT: From Data to Solutions
project (Trainees and Affiliates) will have preference in enrollment. This is a required course for IGERT Trainees.
Students
will be expected to complete all reading assignments before the class. Students will also prepare questions for the
speaker before each talk based on their readings. After the talk, each student
will prepare a 2-3 page report, which must be submitted in CourseWorks before
the following class. In the weekly report, we ask you to briefly summarize the
talk and discussion, and outline an approach to one of the interdisciplinary
problems described in the presentations.
There
will be no midterm or final exam. Grades
will be based on class participation, weekly reports, and final report.
A
guide to weekly reporting can be found here.
An
example can be found here.
Information
on project proposals, final project reports and presentations can be found here, here and here.
A
list of projects from spring 2016 can be found here.
Relevant
dates:
April
29: project proposals due
May
9: presentations
May
11: final report due
Class
participation: 20%
Weekly
Reports 40%
Final
Report 40%
*Absence
policy: An unexcused absence will give you a zero for participation for that
day. An excused absence will have no participation penalty.
Absences
must be cleared with the professors in advance of the class being missed.
Weekly reports are required even if you miss a class.
Copying
or paraphrasing someone's work (code included), or permitting your own work to
be copied or paraphrased, even if only in part, is not allowed, and will result
in an automatic grade of 0 for the entire assignment or exam in which the
copying or paraphrasing was done. Your grade should reflect your own work. If
you believe you are going to have trouble completing an assignment, please talk
to the instructor or TA in advance of the due date.
Required
readings are available online from links in the syllabus below.
Excellent
reports from Spring 2016:
_ Jie Yuan