| 8/27/2025 |
1 |
8/28/2025 |
1 |
Course overview - All sections combined |
| 9/3/2025 |
2 |
9/2/2025 (Tu) & 9/4/2025 |
2 |
Cloud computing introduction (Monday is Labor Day) |
| 9/10/2025 |
3 |
9/8/2025 & 9/11/2025 |
3 |
Parallelization concepts |
| 9/17/2025 |
4 |
9/15/2025 & 9/18/2025 |
4 |
DuckDB, Polars, file formats |
| 9/24/2025 |
5 |
9/22/2025 & 9/25/2025 |
5 |
Data Warehouse (Athena, Presto, Snowflake) |
| 10/1/2025 |
6 |
9/29/2025 & 10/2/2025 |
6 |
Introduction to Spark, RDDs |
| 10/8/2025 |
7 |
10/6/2025 & 10/9/2025 |
7 |
Spark DataFrames and Spark SQL |
| 10/15/2025 |
No class - Fall Break |
10/14/2025 (Tu) & 10/16/2025 (Th) |
No class - Fall Break |
Fall Break week |
| 10/22/2025 |
8 |
10/20/2025 & 10/23/2025 |
8 |
Spark ML and Streaming |
| 10/29/2025 |
9 |
10/27/2025 & 10/30/2025 |
9 |
Apache Iceberg & Table Formats |
| 11/5/2025 |
10 |
11/3/2025 & 11/6/2025 |
10 |
Data Pipeline Orchestration (Airflow) |
| 11/12/2025 |
11 |
11/10/2025 & 11/13/2025 |
11 |
Vector Databases & RAG |
| 11/19/2025 |
12 |
11/17/2025 & 11/20/2025 |
12 |
Modern Data Stack & Governance |
| 11/26/2025 |
No class - Thanksgiving |
11/24/2025 & No class |
13 |
Serverless & Container Orchestration (Th is Thanksgiving) |
| 12/3/2025 |
13 |
12/1/2025 & 12/4/2025 |
14 |
Final topics & Review |
| 12/10/2025 |
14 |
12/8/2025 |
Projects |
Final project presentations |