About this course: Want to understand your data network structure and how it changes under different conditions? Curious to know how to identify closely interacting clusters within a graph? Have you heard of the fast-growing area of graph analytics and want to learn more? This course gives you a broad overview of the field of graph analytics so you can learn new ways to model, store, retrieve and analyze graph-structured data. After completing this course, you will be able to model a problem into a graph database and perform analytical tasks over the graph in a scalable manner. Better yet, you will be able to apply these techniques to understand the significance of your data sets for your own projects.
Created by: University of California, San Diego
Taught by: Amarnath Gupta, Director, Advanced Query Processing Lab
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
| Basic Info |
Course 5 of 6 in the
Big Data Specialization.
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| Commitment | 4 Weeks, 3-5 hours/week |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
| User Ratings |
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Welcome to Graph Analytics
Meet your instructor, Amarnath Gupta and learn about the course objectives.
1 video
WEEK 2
Introduction to Graphs
Welcome! This week we will get a first exposure to graphs and their use in everyday life. By the end of the module you will be able to create a graph applying core mathematical properties of graphs, and identify the kinds of analysis questions one might be ab...
8 videos, 2 readings
Graded: Introduction to Graphs
Graded: Graphs in Everyday Life
WEEK 3
Graph Analytics
17 videos, 3 readings
Graded: Graph Analytics Applications
Graded: Connectivity, Community, and Centrality Analytics
WEEK 4
Graph Analytics Techniques
Welcome to the 4th module in the Graph Analytics course. Last week, we got a glimpse of a number of graph properties and why they are important. This week we will use those properties for analyzing graphs using a free and powerful graph analytics tool called N...
10 videos, 12 readings
Graded: Quiz: Graph Analytics With Neo4j
Graded: Assessment Questions on 'Practicing Graph Analytics in Neo4j With Cypher'
WEEK 5
Computing Platforms for Graph Analytics
In the last two modules we have learned about graph analytics and graph data management. This week we will study how they come together. There are programming models and software frameworks created specifically for graph analytics. In this module we'll give a...
11 videos, 7 readings
Graded: Using GraphX
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Ratings and Reviews
Great course to get familiar with graph data, graph big data, and query languages in graph data.
It started well, but it became a little hard when Java came in. Apart from that, it was great.
Very good project! Hopefully it will be helpful in my future career!
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Excellent course to get acquainted with the Graps