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Tutorials / Labs

The tutorials will start in week 2 on August 1st 2011. In the tutorials, we will discuss both theoretical and practical exercises.

Click on the names of the topics to download the corresponding handouts.

Week Date Topic Example Solution
W2 01.08.2011 Instructions on using Oracle
Object-Relational Features of Oracle
Example solution
Homework solution
W3 08.08.2011 Spatial Model and Queries (Oracle)
SQL to set up data
Oracle Spatial User Guide
O'Reilly Guide to Oracle Spatial
Sample solution
W4 15.08.2010 Temporal Model and Queries Sample solution
W5 22.08.2011 Temporal Storage and Processing Sample solution
W6 06.09.2010 XPath & XQuery
lib2.xml
Editix.zip
Sample solution
W7 05.09.2011 Introduction to Hadoop
wordcount.tar.gz (Sample Hadoop Application)
See code
W8 05.09.2011 Bigram Conditional Probabilities using hadoop
bigrams.jar (Pre-compiled .jar file)
bigrams.tar.gz (sample code, unpack and import into Eclipse project)
See code
W9 19.09.2011 Comparing hadoop to serial processing
minmax.py (Sample program)
n/a
W11 10.10.2011 Z-curve revision
z.py (Sample program)
n/a

Tutorial Times

Tutorials follow immediately after each lecture (that is, Monday 8pm to 9pm)

Postgraduate Student Rooms

You can work on the practical parts of tutorials and assignments either at home or in the School's postgraduate student rooms at level 1 of the SoIT building.
The web-frontend of our central Oracle server is available from home.