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OCMP5339: Data Engineering
2025 unit information
This unit of study covers the data engineering issues of building robust and scalable data processing pipelines. While data engineers may not be directly performing data analysis, they must have the technical knowledge and skillset to provide data analysts with appropriate data analytics architectures and to provide them with reliable and well-formed data that is ready to be analysed. Topics covered range from data ingestion from various sources including databases, text files and web services, to data cleaning and data transformation approaches, and the system architectures that allow the pipeline to run efficiently and automatically. Special consideration is given to building scalable data analysis solutions using a blend of Big Data processing techniques including data stream processing and distributed data processing platforms such as Apache Spark.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Engineering
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Computer Science |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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COMP5310 or OCMP5310 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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COMP5329 or COMP4329 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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Proficiency in programming, especially Python, and in database querying with SQL; basic Unix scripting |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Use appropriate Python libraries to automate data engineering activities on diverse kinds of data
- LO2. Use Unix command line to manage and automate data engineering activities
- LO3. Ingest, combine and summarise data from a variety of data models
- LO4. Demonstrate experience with handling datasets of diverse kinds of data, including relational, semi-structured, time series, geo-location, image, text
- LO5. Understand the main challenges in data engineering: data volume, variety, velocity, veracity, robustness, security
- LO6. Demonstrate awareness of ethical and privacy issues when working with data
- LO7. Evaluate approaches that store and process data, for correctness, efficiency, and ease-of-use.
Unit availability
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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PG Online Session 1B 2025
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Online | Online Program | |
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PG Online Session 2B 2025
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Online | Online Program |
Outline unavailable
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