Teaching

MS Data Science Program at Rochester Institute of Technology

DSCI-644: Software Engineering for Data Science

Spring 2025

Course Overview

This course focuses on the software engineering challenges of building scalable and highly available big data software systems. Software design and development methodologies and available technologies addressing the major software aspects of a big data system including software architectures, application design patterns, different types of data models and data management, and deployment architectures will be covered in this course.

Course Materials

📄 Course Syllabus 📅 Course Calendar 👥 Office Hours

Course Projects

Project 1: Software Development Life Cycle

Part 1: Environment Setup
📝 Project Description 💻 GitHub Repository
Part 2: Simple ETL Pipeline
📝 Project Description 💻 GitHub Repository

Project 2: Advanced Batch Processing ETL Pipeline

📝 Project Description (Coming Soon) 💻 GitHub Repository (Coming Soon)

Project 3: Database Normalization and Optimization

📝 Project Description (Coming Soon) 💻 GitHub Repository (Coming Soon)

Project 4: Stream Processing ETL Pipeline

📝 Project Description (Coming Soon) 💻 GitHub Repository (Coming Soon)