1 00:00:00,12 --> 00:00:02,870 Hi. So many of you have signed up for this 2 00:00:02,870 --> 00:00:04,170 course. It's heartening. 3 00:00:04,170 --> 00:00:09,620 I'm glad you all want to learn web intelligence and big data with me. 4 00:00:09,620 --> 00:00:14,243 Before I get into describing what this course is all about let me give a brief 5 00:00:14,243 --> 00:00:21,460 overview of how we will proceed. this is really an overview course. 6 00:00:21,460 --> 00:00:25,676 We will touch upon a lot of different material ranging from big data 7 00:00:25,676 --> 00:00:30,232 technologies on the one hand, to machine learning and a little bit of AI on the 8 00:00:30,232 --> 00:00:35,108 other. So, in the time that we have, we might 9 00:00:35,108 --> 00:00:40,968 not have the opportunity to go into great detail in any of these topics. 10 00:00:40,968 --> 00:00:47,641 However, I have arranged for two guest lectures in this course. 11 00:00:47,641 --> 00:00:54,676 One on large-scale graph databases, one on a new way of doing AI using statistics 12 00:00:54,676 --> 00:01:02,90 and logic together. Both of which we'll delve quite deep into 13 00:01:02,90 --> 00:01:09,490 topics which normally most of us might not understand in great depth. 14 00:01:09,490 --> 00:01:13,778 But that will give you an idea of things going to their logical conclusion and 15 00:01:13,778 --> 00:01:19,418 depth at a graduate level. But for the most part, this course will 16 00:01:19,418 --> 00:01:24,816 remain an overview course. You should all be able to get an idea of 17 00:01:24,816 --> 00:01:30,442 what web intelligence is about, what big data technologies are. 18 00:01:30,442 --> 00:01:35,524 How they all, all fit together, and an overall sense of unity which will help 19 00:01:35,524 --> 00:01:40,375 you learn much more from a variety of different sources, as you learn each of 20 00:01:40,375 --> 00:01:46,200 these topics in more depth in other courses. 21 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:51,10 Each week, or each unit will be followed by a quiz and a homework assignment and 22 00:01:51,10 --> 00:01:55,820 some of these homework assignments will require you to do programming or data 23 00:01:55,820 --> 00:02:00,794 analysis. So, be prepared for that even if you're 24 00:02:00,794 --> 00:02:06,420 not very familiar with programming. try to get a little familiar with Python, 25 00:02:06,420 --> 00:02:12,348 SQL and basic programming techniques in order for you to understand basic ideas 26 00:02:12,348 --> 00:02:18,790 in this course. Couple of more points, please do complete 27 00:02:18,790 --> 00:02:22,296 the survey. Let's get to know each other, if only in 28 00:02:22,296 --> 00:02:25,356 the aggregate. I promise to publish the results of the 29 00:02:25,356 --> 00:02:28,851 survey as soon as it's done. So that we all know where the bulk of 30 00:02:28,851 --> 00:02:32,155 people doing this course are from, in terms of their background and 31 00:02:32,155 --> 00:02:37,180 motivations. Last, but not least. 32 00:02:37,180 --> 00:02:43,186 The first couple of weeks of this course are recorded with a rather slow speech, 33 00:02:43,186 --> 00:02:48,919 deliberately, so I'm not really going to be speaking as fast as I am right now in 34 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:56,238 the next few weeks. It'll go much slower and some of you 35 00:02:56,238 --> 00:03:02,482 might find it. Tedious, but my experience has been that 36 00:03:02,482 --> 00:03:06,802 it's useful. All of you get to know my speech much 37 00:03:06,802 --> 00:03:13,914 better and then when I speed up later on it's less of a problem for everybody. 38 00:03:13,914 --> 00:03:19,248 those of you who find it slow can fast forward the speech. 39 00:03:19,248 --> 00:03:23,514 To 2x, and most people wont have any trouble with that too. 40 00:03:23,514 --> 00:03:27,860 Finally, this week is a short introduction to the material, the 41 00:03:27,860 --> 00:03:33,108 motivation, the philosophy behind this course, so it barely has less than 30 42 00:03:33,108 --> 00:03:40,442 minutes of lecture time. Starting next week however, it'll be a 43 00:03:40,442 --> 00:03:46,173 full one hour plus of video material and homework and a quiz going with it.