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SIT742 Modern Data Science 2018 T1 Assignment 1 (Three Tasks)
Prepared by Guangyan Huang
Assignment 1: General data processing and using big data (15% marks)
This is an individual work on the understanding of data science, big data and their applications. It contains written answers and some programming-related tasks based on topics presented during Weeks 1 to 3. Assignment 1 is broken down to three tasks below. You can use Google to find the data sources (i.e., websites). After your practice, please write down your executable Python codes and put the collected data in tables for above demonstration. You also need to write several paragraphs to explain your comparison and make a conclusion.
Due: 11:59pm, Saturday, 14 April 2018 28 April 2018 (Postpone two weeks due to many late enrolments)
Task 1. Data Acquisition (7 marks)
Design a web scraping program by Python to collect weather forecast report data of a city (e.g., Melbourne) from a website, such as temperature, humidity, weather status (cloudy, sunny etc.), and store the data in a csv file. Please do this task in both the following ways:
(1) Collecting data by regular interval sampling. You need to find the best sampling interval in terms of space efficiency and demonstrate using numeric results why it is the best solution.
(2) Collecting data by change detection. You store one data object only when any of the weather forecast report data is changed at the website.
Both you need to record weather data with their timestamps. Then, compare the two collection methods, conclude the optimal one and demonstrate using numeric results. (Please refer to Lecture 2.)
Task 2. Data Integration (5 marks)
Use the optimal method you demonstrated above to collect weather report data from more than one websites and integrate the data from different sources (websites) and write the integrated data into a csv file. Please demonstrate (1) how to do schema alignment and
(2) how to determine which is correct if two data from different sources do not agree with each other.
(Please do a survey about the existing techniques and use one to resolve the problem, Lecture 2 provides you some basic concepts and you may do a broader search by yourselves.)
Task 3. Missing Data Prediction (3 marks)
Use the data you collected in Tasks 1 and 2, please design a method to predict a missing data object, for example, between two consecutive data objects (time, temperature) in your csv file as below:
11:00AM, 15 12:00PM, 17 the user want to query about the temperature at 11:30AM.
(Please do a survey about the existing techniques and use one to resolve the problem. Lecture 3 provides you some basic concepts and you may do a broader search by yourselves.)
Assignment 1 Marking Criteria
Assignment 1 (15%=15 Marks)
Criteria Excellent Good Not Shown
Task 1: Data Acquisition (7 marks)
Collect data by regular interval sampling Provide python codes that automatically collect data from static web pages (such as html), use a reasonable interval (e.g., sampling
5 times a day). At least three attributes (e.g., temperature, weather status and humidity) are used and at least ten records are collected (3 marks) Provide python codes that automatically collect data from static web pages (such as html), but cannot continuously collect data. Less than three attributes are used and less than ten records are collected
(1-2 marks) 0 mark
Collect data by change detection Provide python codes that automatically collect data from static web pages (such as html) and develop a change detection scheme. At least three attributes (e.g., temperature, weather status, humidity) and ten records (2 marks) Provide python codes that automatically collect data from static web pages (such as html), but no change detection scheme is used. Less than three attributes and less than ten records (1 mark) 0 mark
Compare the two collection methods and conclude the optimal one Demonstrate using automatically generated numeric results by python codes (2 marks) Demonstrate using manually collected numeric results (1 mark) 0 mark
Task 2: Data Integration (5 marks)
Collect weather report data from multiple sources Select high quality data
sources/websites (at least two). For each data source, at least three attributes and at least ten records are collected (3 marks) Collect data from at least two data sources/websites without quality selection, and less than three attributes and less than ten records are collected from each data source (1-2 marks) 0 mark
Do schema alignment Manually get the schema alignment rules for data from two sources and write the rules into python codes for continuous update of data (1 mark) Manually get the schema alignment rules for data from two sources and no automatic and continuous update of data
(0.5 mark) 0 mark
Do data fusion Compare data records from different data sources (records' attributes are aligned) and develop a simple fusion scheme. (1 mark) Compare data records from different data sources (records' attributes are aligned) and use mean to fuse data. (0.5 mark) 0 mark
Task 3: Missing Data Prediction (3 marks)
Develop a data prediction method Predict the missing data point using its consecutive neighbors or the whole trends or the value in the similar time bin. (3 marks) Use simple techniques, such mean and median (1-2 marks) 0 mark
A Ladder for Assignment 1
Approach Instruction for Task 1.
Step 1: Google a city's weather data. From the Google hit/result list, manually select several (e.g., 5) web pages, which comprise the weather data in html pages.
Step 2: Learn -Web Scraping Codes- from Slides 20-21 of Lecture 2. You can observe source codes from https://github.com/hmcuesta/PDA_Book/tree/master/Chapter2
Step 3: Understand two concepts: -regular interval sampling- and -discrete sampling based on change- from Slides 15-17 of Lecture 2. Design both a regular interval sampling scheme and a change detection sampling scheme. Then implement your two schemes by modifying the example web scraping codes learnt in Step 2. Collect data from only one website (at least ten records using at least three weather attributes) for each scheme.
Step 4: Put the data collected by the two schemes into a table and manually compare/analyse the results difference and discuss which one is optimal in terms of space efficiency and collecting efficiency.
Approach Instructions for Task 2.
Step 1: Repeat Task 1 but only using the optimal sampling scheme by considering at least one more website.
Step 2: Manually compare the attributes from different data sources/websites (at least two) and pair two attributes if they are the same meaning (one such pair we call a schema alignment rule). Write the schema alignment rules into python codes for continuously collecting updated data for at least ten records.
Step 3: Put (at least) ten data records into a column for each data source, so you get two columns and (at least) ten rows. Observe and compare the data at each row and think out a scheme to fuse them into one result that you can put at the third column. You may consider some optimisation in your scheme to ensure higher accuracy and higher confidence of your final fused results.
Approach Instructions for Task 3.
Step 1. Observe your data in the table at Step 3 of Task 2. Consider methods in Slide 12 of Lecture 3. You can assume a scenario, if a user query a weather data at a time that is not in your table. You design a scheme to answer this kind of user query. For example, in your table, you may have
8:00AM, 13?
9:00AM, 13.5?
10:00AM, 14?
11:00AM, 15?
12:00PM, 16?
13:00PM, 17?
14:00PM, 25?
15:00PM, 22?
16:00PM, 23?
17:00PM, 20?
but the user want to query about the temperature at 11:30AM.
Possible scheme 1. Based on consecutive neighbors
Possible scheme 2. Based on whole trends
Possible scheme 3. Based on the value in the similar time bin in another day.
And other possible schemes developed by yourself. (Note: try your best model the data trends and build prediction models by some survey and we understand you may not learn data analytics methods at this stage.)
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