Readings

Books

Text books:

Rob Kitchin. The Data Revolution - A Critical Analysis of Big Data, Open Data and Data Infrastructures, 2nd Edition. Sage, 2021.
- chapters 1, 3-5, 13-14, 17-19 are mandatory (12 and 15-16 are supplementary)

Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia: Sprk: The Definitive Guide - Big Data Processing Made Simple. O'Riley, 2018. File:Spark-TheDefinitiveGuide.pdf
- chapters 1-9, 12, 15, 20-21 are mandatory (chapter 10 on SQL is also highly relevant)
- GitHub repository with code and data examples

Selected papers will become available here, including:

Section 1 in Opdahl, A. L., & Nunavath, V. (2020). Big Data. Big Data in Emergency Management: Exploitation Techniques for Social and Mobile Data, 15-29. Book chapter
Gallofré, M., Opdahl, A. L., Stoppel, S., Tessem, B., & Veres, C. (2021). The News Angler Project: Exploring the Next Generation of Journalistic Knowledge Platforms. In Proceedings of Norsk IKT-konferanse for forskning og utdanning. Short Paper and poster: File:A1-Poster-NIKT2021.pdf

Supplementary:

Opdahl, A. L., & Tessem, B. (2021). Ontologies for finding journalistic angles. Software and Systems Modeling, 20(1), 71-87. Paper
Berven, A., Christensen, O. A., Moldeklev, S., Opdahl, A. L., & Villanger, K. J. (2020). A knowledge-graph platform for newsrooms. Computers in Industry, 123, 103321. Paper
Design Science in Information Systems Research by Alan R. Hevner, Salvatore T. March, Jinsoo Park and Sudha Ram. MIS Quarterly 28(1):75-105, March 2004. (You need to be on UiB's network to access the link - I have uploaded it under Files in mitt.uib.no, but it may soon be deleted from there...)
Hevner, A. R. (2007). A three cycle view of design science research. Scandinavian journal of information systems, 19(2), 4. File:Hevner2007-ThreeCycleView-SJIS.pdf

Selected web pages will become available here, including:

Kafka Introduction
NREC and OpenStack, the following sections/pages: Introduction, Project application, Logging in, The dashboard, Create a Linux virtual machine (skip: Windows), Using SSH, Working with Security Groups, Create and manage volumes, Create and manage snapshots (skip: images), Instance console
TerraForm and NREC part I, part II, and part III
How Ansible Works and the Ansible Community portal
Docker Docs: Docker overview and Get started
Learn Kubernetes basics, modules 1-6
What is GDPR, the EU’s new data protection law?

Supplementary:

See the Session page for lecture slides after each session.

The Sessions page will suggest specific readings for each session and its associated exercise.