Fall 2019

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6.S080 lectures are in E25-111 at 2:30pm on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Tentative schedule. Remaining lectures, and assignment dates will be posted closer to class start date.

MondayTuesday WednesdayThursday Friday
Sept 2
Labor Day
Sept 3
Reg day
Sept 4
First day of classes

Assigned: Lab 0
Sept 5
Sept 6
Sept 9
Reading: Sections 8.1 - 8.3 and 8.7 of Chapter 8 of "Foundations of Computer Science”, by Al Ajo and Jeffrey Ullman.
Sept 10
Sept 11

Due: Lab 0
Assigned: Lab 1
Sept 12
Sept 13

Sept 16
Readings:
(1) grep, awk and sed – three VERY useful command-line utilities (Matt Probert, Uni of York)
(2) Wrangler: Interactive Visual Specification of Data Transformation Scripts (Sean Kandel, Andreas Paepcke, Joseph Hellerstein, Jeffrey Heer)
(3) Video Demo: here
Sept 17 Sept 18
Reading:
View-based Data Integration (Yannis Katsis, Yannis Papakonstantinou)
Due: Lab 1
Assigned: Lab 2
Due: Form Project Teams
Sept 19
Sept 20
Sept 23
Readings:
(1) NADEEF: A Commodity Data Cleaning System
(2) Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done?
Sept 24
Sept 25

Due: Lab 2
Assigned: Lab 3
Sept 26
Sept 27

Sept 30
Oct 1
Oct 2
Oct 3
Oct 4
ADD DATE
Oct 7

Due: Lab 3
Oct 8
Oct 9

Assigned: Lab 5
Due: Project Proposal (750 Words)
Oct 10
Oct 11
Oct 14
Columbus Day Holiday
Oct 15
Columbus Day Holiday
Oct 16

Project Proposal Feedback Out
Oct 17
Oct 18
Oct 21
Oct 22
Oct 23

Due: Lab 5
Oct 24
Oct 25
Oct 28
Oct 29


Oct 30

Assigned: Lab 6
Oct 31
Nov 1
Nov 4


Due: Project Mid-report (750 words max)
Nov 5
Nov 6

Nov 7
Nov 8
Nov 11
Veterans Day Holiday
Nov 12
Nov 13


Project Mid-report Feedback out (In-class)
Due: Lab 6
Nov 14
Nov 15
Nov 18
Nov 19
Nov 20
DROP DATE
Nov 21
Nov 22
Nov 25
Nov 26
Nov 27
No Class: Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 28
Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov 29
Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec 2
Dec 3
Dec 4
Dec 5
Dec 6
Dec 9
Dec 10
Dec 11

Due: Project Posters
Due: Project Report
Dec 12
Dec 13
Last change: 9/4/2019.