Recitations

Students are encouraged to attend one of these recitations:

  • Tuesday at 8 AM Pittsburgh (GHC 4307) (videotaped)
  • Friday at 2 PM Pittsburgh (GHC 4307)

    The teaching staff will be on hand to discuss the course every week.

    Video recordings of Tuesday recitations will be available 30 minutes after class here: Video of Recitations

    Rectiation Schedule

    • Recitation 1, August 27th & 30th 2013: Introduction and Course Logistics Slides
    • Recitation 2, September 3rd & 6th 2013: Information on Quiz 1 and Project 1. Slides
    • Recitation 3, September 10th & 13th 2013: EMR. Slides
    • Recitation 4, September 17th & 20th 2013: EC2 and CloudWatch APIs. Slides
    • Recitation 5, September 24th & 27th 2013: Load Balancing and Scaling. Slides
    • Recitation 6, October 1st & 4th 2013: Autoscaling. Slides
    • Recitation 7, October 8th & 11th 2013: Flat Files vs. Databases. Slides
    • Recitation 8, October 15th 2013: Storage: Vertical Scaling. Slides
    • Recitation 9, October 22nd & 25th 2013: Storage: Horizontal Scaling. Slides
    • Recitation 10, October 29th & November 1st 2013: NoSQL: DynamoDB Slides & 15-619 Project Slides
    • Recitation 11, November 5th & 8th 2013: DynamoDB versus HBase Slides
    • Recitation 12, November 12th & 15th 2013: MapReduce Slides
    • Recitation 13, November 19th & 22nd 2013: Ngram Slides
    • Recitation 14, November 26th 2013: Language Model Slides