COMP9321 Notices

Notices

  • Supplementary Exam paper is released

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Friday 28 May 2021, 12:58:37 PM.

    Dear All,

    Please be advised that the final exam Paper is now released ( Exam )

    You can submit your MCQ answers in Moodle Quiz ( MCQ )

    Remember the instructions we have provided in the previous announcements. Try to read all the exam questions first so if you have any questions you can reach out to us soon rather at the last minute. You ca contact me via e-mail or MS Teams.

    Best of Luck to all

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Term1 Supplementary Exam

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Sunday 23 May 2021, 12:52:32 AM.

    Dear Students,

    if you have been approved to participate in the supplementary exam please be advised for the following:

    • the exam is on Friday the 28th of May @ 13:00 and conclude @ 15:15 (2 hours and 15 minutes).
    • all the exam details are similar as the original final exam (read the previous announcements on the 26th, 29th of April) the only difference is that if you have any question you need to contact me on Teams or email.
    • it worth to iterate and elaborate about something. we are going to use Moodle quiz bank for the MCQ. you can attempt the MCQ multiple times and only the last attempt that you have click "submit answers" will be considered. as the questions are randomized from the quiz bank, that means if you make new attempt you will get new set of questions.
    • one more thing to emphasize, all answers should be in your own words. copy/paste from any source will get you zero and possible case of student misconduct.

    best of luck to all...

  • Assign3 Marks Released

    Posted by Mehmet Rad Tuesday 11 May 2021, 03:06:16 PM.

    Dear Students,

    Assignment 3 has been marked. Please contact me (Mohammadali) if you have any enquires.
    Before requesting for a re-mark, please read the Assignment Specification and requirements, and use the test dataset to test your own models.
    The test dataset is now accessible from :
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mysilver/COMP9321-Data-Services/master/20t1/assign3/test.csv

    Cheers,
    Mohammad

  • Written answers submission in case of WebCMS lagging

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Friday 30 April 2021, 02:28:09 PM.

    Dear All,

    Just to anticipate what may happen as Give might have been improved but WebCMS seems still not there yet.

    so if on the last minutes and you are submitting your PDF files and WebCMS went down, you can upload your PDF file to UNSW SharePoint file request Here . Make sure that you use the same naming convention for the file ( zID.pdf ). Be advised, this is not a replacement for submitting using Give as we are going to mark the files submitted in Give. This is just for record keeping and to make sure that even if the submission on Give is after the deadline the submission will be marked as long as the files are exactly the same. So keep trying to submit on Give till the file go through.

    best of luck...

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Final Exam Paper is Released

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Friday 30 April 2021, 01:01:47 PM.

    Dear All,

    Please be advised that the final exam Paper is now released ( Exam )

    You can submit your MCQ answers in Moodle Quiz ( MCQ )

    Remember the instructions we have provided in the previous announcements. Try to read all the exam questions first so if you have any questions you can reach out to us soon rather at the last minute.

    Best of Luck to all

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Final Exam (We are almost There)

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Friday 30 April 2021, 12:03:47 PM.

    Dear All,

    Just a Gentle reminder about the final exam and some notes worth mentioning:

    • the Exam will start at 13:00 Sydney Time today and conclude at 15:15 Sydney time ( 2 hours and 15 minutes ).
    • The Exam paper is going to be released in WebCMS in the " Final Exam " menu item on the designated time and a notification will be sent.
    • As we mentioned before, we are going to use Moodle Quiz Module for the MCQ. the link to the quiz will be visible on the designated time. Pay attention that you need to click submit at the end of the Quiz attempt so the attempt will be recorded. If you do not click submit or the time ends before clicking submit, the attempt will not be recorded.
    • Answers to the Written questions to be submitted via Give system as a pdf file and the file name should be z{id}.pdf. Pay attention to the size of the file not to exceed 1.5MB .
    • if you face any problem while submitting (e.g., Give system Lag), take a snapshot of the state and send to ( cs9321@cse.usw.edu.au ) along with the PDF file you are submitting. This is just for record keeping and we still need you to submit using Give but the file in the email will be used to attest that you have not updated your submission.
    • if you have any inquiry about the exam questions, please send an e-mail to ( cs9321@cse.unsw.edu.au ). Please try to read the exam paper the sooner the better, and do not leave questions to the last minute. The title of the e-mail should include "COMP9321 Exam". We will also be available on Microsoft Teams as well most of time, so you may contact ( Morty Al-Banna and May Altulyan ) via direct messages (avoid posting questions on public channels).
    • if there are any corrections or updates during the exam we will make an announcement in WebCMS and an e-mail will be sent to all. make sure to check WebCMS regularly and before submitting.
    • There is no extra time or late penalty. the deadline is final and any submission made after the deadline WILL NOT BE MARKED . Do not leave the submission of all the answers to the last minute and risk facing issues or forgetting. You can make multiple submissions regularly to avoid this risk.
    • By submitting your answers you certify that all the answers are according to your own effort and are in your own words. You should NOT copy/paste from the lecture or online resources.
    • Even after you finish the exam, do not communicate your exam answers to anyone on the day of the exam. Some students may have extended time to complete the exam.
    • Check previous announcement in regard to the final exam.

    Best of Luck To All...

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Final Exam + Assignment2 marks + MyExperience

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 29 April 2021, 02:51:38 PM.

    Dear All,

    this is a combined notification about multiple topics so please read through:

    Exam:

    • A reminder about the final exam tomorrow starting at 13:00 Sydney Time .
    • Read through the last announcement about the final exam and the Thursday lecture of Week10
    • We had some questions in the forum about calculation. There might be some simple calculations but no mathematical proofs as I have mentioned before in the lecture.
    • All the written answers need to typed and transformed to a PDF file and submitted. if you feel that you need to explain something with a hand sketch you can take a snapshot and include in the PDF but be aware of the size of the file not to be larger than 1.5MB.
    • Again we emphasize the importance of having all the answers in your own words and according to your own effort. copy/paste from any resource is NOT allowed.

    Assignment2 Marks/Feedback:

    • Please go through the feedback that you have got, and contact the person who did the marking.
    • Please be patient if you do not get an immediate reply. we will reply and discuss the feedback and action your comments and if there is any need to adjust the mark we will.
    • Make sure to include the feedback you have received and your comments.

    MyExperience Survey:

    • sorry for being annoying about this but we are still suffering from low participation so if you may take a break from the exam preparation to refresh and give us some feedback it would be great.
    • please if you may make sure to include your feedback about what you have enjoyed and we should keep and highlight, and what are the things we can improve.
    • if you need the link here it is (https://myexperience.unsw.edu.au/)

    Best of luck to all...

    COMP9321 teaching team

  • Assignment 2 Marks are Released

    Posted by Mehmet Rad Thursday 29 April 2021, 09:33:03 AM.

    Dear Students,

    You can now access your mark for Assignment 2; please read the feedback, and contact the tutor who has marked your submission if you have any questions.

    Cheers,

  • Final Exam Information

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Monday 26 April 2021, 10:39:24 PM, last modified Monday 26 April 2021, 11:04:31 PM.

    Dear All,

    In regard to the final exam, please be advised for the following:

    • Exam is on the 30th of April 2021. start time is 13:00 PM Sydney Time and ends at 15:15 PM of the same day (2 hours and 15 minutes).
    • The Exam paper is going to be released in WebCMS in the "Final Exam " menu item on the designated time and a notification will be sent.
    • As we mentioned before, we are going to use Moodle Quiz Module for the MCQ. the link to the quiz will be visible on the designated time. Check the Thursday lecture of Week10 for details.
    • Answers to the Written questions are to be submitted via WebCMS/Give system as a PDF file and the file name should be z{id}.pdf . the answers should be typed not hand written, but if you need to explain something with a hand sketch drawing then it is allowed to sketch by hand and attach the drawing in the PDF.
    • During the exam if you have any inquiry about the exam questions you can approach the available teaching staff (Morty, and potentially either Mohammad Ali or May) via Microsoft Teams, or you can send an e-mail to ( cs9321@cse.unsw.edu.au ). Please try to read the exam paper as early as possible and get clarifications if needed. Do not keep inquiries to the last minute. The title of the e-mail should include "COMP9321 Exam".
    • If there are any corrections or updates during the exam we will make an announcement in WebCMS and an e-mail will be sent to all. make sure to check WebCMS regularly and before submitting.
    • There is no extra time or late penalty. the deadline is final and any submission made after the deadline (without approved extension) WILL NOT BE MARKED . Do not leave the submission of all the answers to the last minute and risk facing issues or forgetting. You can make multiple submissions regularly to avoid this risk.
    • By submitting your answers you certify that all the answers are according to your own effort and are in YOUR OWN WORDS . We are going to use plagiarism/text similarity tool to check submissions and if your submission is not in your own words and according to your own effort, you will get zero marks for the exam and a possible charge of academic misconduct.
    • Even after you finish the exam, do not communicate your exam answers to anyone on the day of the exam. Some students may have extended time to complete the exam.
    • Do not place your exam work in any location accessible to any other person. This includes services such as Dropbox and Github.
    • Ensure during the exam no other person in your household can access your work.
    • Your zpass should not be disclosed to any other person. If you have disclosed your zpass , you should change it immediately.
    • Closer to the Date of the Exam there will be another announcement to remind you and another one on the same day to give contact details and links.

    Below are some instructions from the school you also need to be aware of:

    FIT TO SIT

    By sitting or submitting an assessment on the scheduled assessment date, a student is declaring that they are fit to do so and cannot later apply for Special Consideration.

    If, during an exam a student feels unwell to the point that they cannot continue with the exam, they should take the following steps which are also available in the (Important Information for Online Assessments) section of the special consideration process information ( https://student.unsw.edu.au/special-consideration ).

    1. Stop working on the exam and take note of the time

    2. If the Course Coordinator or Tutor is present online during the assessment in Microsoft Teams, make contact immediately and advise them that they are unwell

    3. Immediately submit a Special Consideration application saying that they felt ill during the exam and were unable to continue

    4. If they were able to advise the Course Coordinator or Tutor of the illness during the assessment, attach screenshots of this conversation to the Special Consideration application

    TECHNICAL ISSUES

    If students experience a technical issue, they should take the following steps:

    1. Take screenshots of as many of the following as possible:

    • error messages
    • screen not loading
    • timestamped speed tests
    • power outage maps

    2. If the Course Coordinator or Tutor is present online during the assessment in Microsoft Teams, contact should be made immediately to advise them of the issue.

    3. A Special Consideration application should be submitted immediately after the conclusion of the assessment, along with the appropriate screenshots.

    Best of luck to all...

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • MyExperience Survey

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Monday 26 April 2021, 01:51:12 PM.

    Dear All,

    Thanks for the students who have already participated in the myExperience survey. if you have not yet participated please do so using the link (https://myexperience.unsw.edu.au/). We appreciate your feedback and it helps us improve. Please if you may share with us what you thought worked in the course (so we can keep and focus on) and what do you wish we can improve. All comments and suggestions are welcome.

    thank you for participating...

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Quiz5 is released

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Sunday 25 April 2021, 12:06:20 AM.

    Dear All,

    Quiz5 is released. Please select the most suitable answer and submit your answers before the deadline as any submission after the deadline will not be accepted.

    Quiz5 | COMP9321 21T1 | WebCMS3 (unsw.edu.au)

    best of luck to all,

    COMP9321 teaching team

  • Link to the Lecture Live

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 22 April 2021, 04:15:27 PM, last modified Thursday 22 April 2021, 04:16:31 PM.

    Hi,

    Sorry the post I made didn't go through for the Link to the lecture.

    here is the Link

    cheers,


  • Interesting blog by students in COMP9321

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Monday 19 April 2021, 12:31:25 AM.

    Dear All,

    We are proud to see that two students in COMP9321 have utilized the knowledge that they have acquired in the course to help them with their own project within the UNSW IT Hero Program.

    Saurabh Jain and Sheethal Mohan have shared their experience and some information about their project in a blog that you can find here ( COMP9321 21T1 | WebCMS3 (unsw.edu.au) ). although they are not at liberty to share code or the dataset since this is a project proposed by a business partner, but they have shared some code snippet and masked data snippets to provide context and help other students learn from their experience.

    Please feel free to comment on the blog and ask questions.

  • Waiving the late penalty for Assignment3 for the first three days

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Sunday 18 April 2021, 12:46:23 AM, last modified Sunday 18 April 2021, 11:21:14 PM.

    Dear All,

    As you may have been aware, some students has suffered some issues with the files in their home directory. it seems that the issue affected very small percentage of the students, but nevertheless it came to our attention that some of the students enrolled in COMP9321 are among the students affected.

    So just to be mindful of this and to minimize the stress in the already stressful Week10, so we decided to waive the late penalty for assigmnent3 for the first three days (for all students). Pay attention that we are NOT extending the deadline , so if you submit your answers after 3 days of the deadline your submission will NOT be marked as the penalty will be 100% (i.e. as long as you submit before 18:00 on the 24th of April there will be no penalty, but any submission (without approved extension) after this time/date will not be marked).

    We hope that this will make things more convenient to the students. If you have any question or if anything is not clear please feel free to contact us.

    ** Note : if you have been affected with the File Server issue please check the instructions here ( these instructions. ) and follow up with CSE Help desk ( helpdesk@cse.unsw.edu.au ).<o:p></o:p>

    Best of luck to all,

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Quiz4 is now released

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Sunday 18 April 2021, 12:08:51 AM, last modified Sunday 18 April 2021, 12:09:07 AM.

    Dear All,

    Quiz4 is now released ( https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/21T1/acti... )

    best of luck to all...

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Assignment 1 has been Marked

    Posted by Mehmet Rad Thursday 08 April 2021, 02:21:21 PM.

    Hi All,

    Please contact the tutor who marked you if you have any concerns about your assignment 1 mark. Please be paitiant it may take us some time to write back to you since we are receiving many requests.

    THANKS FOR YOUR PAITIANCE

  • Assignment 3 specifications are released

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Wednesday 07 April 2021, 11:45:17 AM.

    Dear All,

    We have released the specification of assignment3 ( https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/21T1/reso... ) Please take the opportunity to view the specification and if there is anything you feel clarification please share with us so we can adjust and clarify the specs.

    Best of luck to all,

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Quiz3 is released

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 01 April 2021, 06:36:16 PM.

    Dear All,

    Quiz3 is releases. Please remember to select the most suitable answer for each question.

    Quiz 3 | COMP9321 21T1 | WebCMS3 (unsw.edu.au)

    best of luck,

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Assignment Submission

    Posted by Mehmet Rad Friday 26 March 2021, 05:47:47 PM.

    Dear Students,

    Given that CSE servers are down, please do not submit your assignment till Sunday.

    Cheers,

  • Waiving the late penalty for assignment2 for the first three days

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Friday 26 March 2021, 05:06:53 PM.

    Dear All,

    As you may have already received a notification about CSE servers being down during the weekend and it states:

    All CSE servers will be offline from Friday 26th 19:00 to Saturday 27th 20:00 (Sydney time)

    all login servers will be down - no ssh or vscode access

    all vlab servers will be down - no access via VNC

    all web servers will be down - no access to class web pages

    all file servers will be down - no access to your files

    there will be no access to other CSE services - no webcms3, give, gitlab, hopper, ...

    Other parts of UNSW should be unaffected. This work is in the K17 building only.

    So just to be mindful of this and since the submission's deadline for assignment2 is the 3rd of April (within the Easter Holiday) so we decided to waive the late penalty for assigmnent2 for the first three days. Pay attention that we are NOT extending the deadline , so if you submit your assignment2 answers after 3 days of the deadline your submission will NOT be marked as the penalty will be 100%.

    We hope that this will make things more convenient to the students. If you have any question or if anything is not clear please feel free to contact us.

    ** Note : the CSE servers being down should not affect your work as you can just copy the specs offline and work on your own machine. You won't be able to ask questions in WebCMS nor test things in VLAB.

    Best of luck to all,

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Assignment2 Specification draft available for viewing

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Saturday 20 March 2021, 12:19:22 PM.

    Dear All,

    A draft of the specifications for Assignment1 is now available for viewing ( Assignment2 ). The specification is in Draft state which give you the chance to read the specifications and ask questions or comment on the specifications if you think something is not clear and we will clarify and adjust (think in context of reading time in exams :)). You will notice that there is no way to submit the answers because we do not want you to start working on the assignment or submit anything.

    by the end of the day we will adjust if there are any comments or requests for clarification and the specifications will advance to the final state.

    best of luck to all...

  • Acknowledging top ranked students on DataCamp for Week5

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 18 March 2021, 11:35:25 PM.

    Dear All,

    I forgot to acknowledge the effort of the top ranked students in DataCamp during the lecture today. I think they deserve more recognition and qualify to be in an announcement. They managed to invest some time for self learning even with the stress of assignments and deadlines and we even have a new star who managed to climb to the top three.

    We acknowledge all the effort of students in the path of learning and for this week the students below has acquired 1 bonus mark to be added to the assignments mark (capped with total assignment being 50).


    best of luck to all and never stop learning...

  • Extending Deadline for assignment1 till 8PM

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Wednesday 17 March 2021, 10:42:20 PM.

    Dear All,

    Just to provide more flexibility for students and make things more convenient for students working full time that might find it hard to submit by 4PM, we have extended the deadline to 8PM on Thursday the 18th of March. We are prioritizing students' safety that is why we can't extend to midnight, since some students may tend to stay in CSE labs till the deadline.

    best of luck to all...

    COMP9321 Teaching team.

  • Clarification about the Datasets and correctness of information

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Wednesday 17 March 2021, 08:21:59 PM.

    Dear All,

    We just wanted to state that the source of the dataset is Kaggle. I mentioned before that we did not create the datasets ourselves and we fetched them from Kaggle just to provide you with a real world experience working with real dataset rather than dummy data we create. That being said, we are not responsible nor are we affirming to how correct or up-to-date the geographical or the political information in the datasets. This is "a working with data" exercise and we are not trying to teach you about geography or politics.

    If anyone is feeling offended of how the data in the dataset does not describe the current state of the world then we apologize as this was not intentional.

    please feel free to contact me with any concern you have...

    best of luck to all

  • Assignment 1 Clarification (Do not Panic)

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Wednesday 17 March 2021, 08:06:25 PM.

    Dear All,

    We have noticed that some students are panicking in regard to the assignment specification. so

    • First thing, "Do not Panic" we have not changed the specification in a way that require you to redo work.
    • We mentioned before in regard to the pre-processing of the complex object of "Cities" column we won't be very critical (we are Manually Marking, there is NO system looking at output and if it is not exactly what we have then you get zero). that being said we have received multiple questions on WebCMS asking how to determine a duplicate city and whether some cities with same or very close name are duplicate or not (e.g., Abdul vs Abdul' or 'Abdul). A logical solution would be that if they are in the same country and have the same coordinates then it is safe to say it is just a data quality issue and just remove the duplicate. We have not changed the specs in this regard just put it within the FAQ since we had this multiple times.
    • In regard to performance, we are not marking performance or quality of code, BUT if your program takes too long to run then there is a risk that the marker will assume that the program has just hung (or entered an infinite loop) and hence the program is not working. We are not processing big data here so it is not logical for the program to run for over 1 minute. if your program takes too long to run then you need to check the custom functions you are using and the external functions you are calling from the libraries. again this is not a requirement but an indicator that you are doing things efficiently.

    Last but not least, This is on the scale of small individual project (I believe I mentioned this from day one when we released the specs) so there is no one perfect solution and we are not going to look for perfection. so do not stress.

    best of luck to all...

    COMP9321 Teahcing team

  • Quiz2 is released

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Wednesday 10 March 2021, 10:46:42 AM.

    Dear All,

    Quiz2 is released. please participate before the deadline and provide the best suitable answer for each question.

    Quiz 2 | COMP9321 21T1 | WebCMS3 (unsw.edu.au)

    best of luck

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Assignments - Sharing Codes on Public Websites

    Posted by Mehmet Rad Monday 08 March 2021, 09:29:24 AM.

    Dear Students,

    You must not share your code on any public repositories or websites (e.g., Github, Gitlab); even after the term.
    It is your liability to make sure your code isn't got copied at all times.


  • Live Lecture link

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 04 March 2021, 03:43:50 PM.

    Although, everyone should have got used to this but no harm in iterating. the Link to the Live lecture is in the lectures resource section in WebCMS. for today it is COMP9321 2021T1 Week3 Thursday Lecture Live Event | COMP9321 21T1 | WebCMS3 (unsw.edu.au)

  • Draft of the Assignment 1 specifications is now available for viewing

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Wednesday 03 March 2021, 01:51:51 PM.

    Dear All,

    A draft of the specifications for Assignment1 is now available for viewing ( https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/21T1/reso... ). We decided to release it a day earlier to give you the chance to read the specifications and ask questions or comment on the specifications if you think something is not clear and we will clarify and adjust (think in context of reading time in exams :)). You will notice that there is no way to submit the answers because we do not want you to start working on the assignment or submit anything yet (till tomorrow at least).

    Tomorrow during the lecture time, we are going to discuss briefly the assignment and the rational as well.

    best if luck to all...

  • Another reminder about the link to the lecture Live Event

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Monday 01 March 2021, 03:48:56 PM, last modified Monday 01 March 2021, 03:50:03 PM.

    Dear All,

    just to iterate again. the link to the lectures will be always available within the Lecture resource on WebCMS. for today as an example it is ( COMP9321 2021T1 Week3 Monday Lecture Live Event | COMP9321 21T1 | WebCMS3 (unsw.edu.au) )

    regards,

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Quiz1 is released

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 25 February 2021, 09:49:34 PM.

    Dear All,

    Quiz1 is now released ( Quiz1 | COMP9321 21T1 | WebCMS3 (unsw.edu.au) ).

    regards,

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Link to the Live Lecture

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 25 February 2021, 03:22:08 PM.

    Dear All,

    Just a reminder about where to find the link for the Live lecture today. It is within the lecture resources for each week we are in, and designated with the Lecture day. Be advised to use the this specific link since each lecture has its own link.

    For today's lecture the link could be found here ( Week2 Thursday Lecture Microsoft Teams Live Event | COMP9321 21T1 | WebCMS3 (unsw.edu.au) )

    regards

  • Lecture Delivery Update

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Monday 22 February 2021, 01:10:55 PM.

    Dear All,

    the Poll that we posted in WebCMS about lecture delivery had the similar numbers voting for Microsoft Live Event and having the lectures available to download. so in order to provide the best of both worlds here is what we are going to have:

    • Lectures will be run Live using Microsoft Teams Live event. this will provide the opportunity for students who prefer interreacting with the lecturers and ask questions. The links for each Live Event will be available in the 'Lectures' subsection of WebCMS within the week we are in. As an example for todays lecture the Live Event attendees link could be found here ( Week2 Monday Lecture Microsoft Teams Live Event | COMP9321 21T1 | WebCMS3 (unsw.edu.au) ). this will also have an added value that whenever you want to watch the streaming of the past lecture you can just comeback and click the link. Also I do not like the idea of bombardment with invite e-mails :)
    • We will download the lecture recording video and made them available to be downloaded by students on a SharePoint folder. I have created a new resource within the lecture items titled (Downloadable Lecture recordings) and you can find that resource here ( Downloadable Lecture Recordings | COMP9321 21T1 | WebCMS3 (unsw.edu.au) ). Please be advised that it will take some time to have the file appearing in the shared-folder.

    Be advised that in order to access the live events and the shared-folder you MUST have joined the course on Microsoft Teams to be a part of the Permission Group.

    We hope that this will be convinient to all stdeeunts and you will be able to have a good leanring experience.

    regards,

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Milestone achieved (COMP9321 First Week)

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Saturday 20 February 2021, 12:52:34 AM, last modified Saturday 20 February 2021, 10:47:34 PM.

    Dear All,

    As we are concluding our first week of the term, so here are some notes to pay attention to and a request for your feedback that would help us shape the course to provide the best learning experience:

    • Lecture recordings for Week1 are accessible to stream via the lecture recording tab in the general channel of Microsoft Teams. For the second lecture though you can either watch it using the method mentioned earlier or you can watch it using the same link for the Microsoft Teams Live Event.
    • Week2 Lab activities are now visible to everyone. You can do the labs on your own time. If you have any difficulty and require support please feel free to Drop by during consultations time indicated ( Timetable | COMP9321 21T1 | WebCMS3 (unsw.edu.au) ). the person in charge of the session will be available on Microsoft Teams Labs Channel and you can initiate conversation, share your screen, ask questions. Be advised that these are consultation labs, so we are not presenting anything just provide help and support.
    • As this is a introductory course for Data Services Engineering, so I will introduce some concepts sometimes that although we are not going to go deeper in, but they are useful to know. so to minimize confusion, when I talk about something that we are not going to have an assessment about I will just tag it with FYI (For Your Information). so if a resource, file, notebook...etc. is tagged with FYI in title, then you are free to use it for your own personal progress but there won't be any assessment about it.
    • DataCamp is a resource that we will designate as FYI. So we are not using DataCamp for any assessments for this term. I will give a kudos for the students who ranks highest in the leader board on weekly basis as an acknowledgement for their efforts and eagerness to learn.
    • As we are concluding the first week, please provide some feedback about the delivery of the lectures. We have created a poll that you can participate in here ( Give your opinion about Lecture Delivery for COMP9321 | COMP9321 21T1 | WebCMS3 (unsw.edu.au) ). Any feedback would be highly appreciated.

    We hope that you have enjoyed the first week of the course and that your are eager for what to come...

    regards,

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Lecture Today using Microsoft Live Event (initiation link enclosed)

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Thursday 18 February 2021, 01:27:02 PM.

    Dear All,

    *** Disclaimer : Sorry if you have already received this in your e-mails but this is just in case that you have not joined the course in Microsoft Teams.

    We received some feedback that using Microsoft Meeting for the first lecture in COMP9321 was not a providing a good experience for students. So we are going with Microsoft Teams Live Event which can cater larger numbers by allowing around 10 second buffering. We believe that this will resolve the issue of lagging and sluggish videos/audio. You are still going to be able to interact and ask questions via the Q&A feature in the event but unfortunately you won’t be able to unmute and use your microphone (which in our experience is rarely used in lectures by students anyway).

    On the designated time please click on the link and join the event. After the event conclude you will be able to access the lecture recording and even download it using the same link (so this is an added bonus in comparison to only be able to watch live in Stream).

    We hope that this would improve the learning experience and please feel free to provide your feedback and comments since this is how we can improve and make your education experience more enjoyable.

    Join the Live Event Here

    Regards,

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Welcome to COMP9321 Video

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Saturday 13 February 2021, 03:36:56 PM.

    Dear All,

    I have prepared a short Welcome Video for the course and you can access it via Microsoft Teams or through the link ( https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/7a1fff1b-892... ) which is also a sneaky way to push you to join the course on Microsoft Teams (check the poll). You need to be on Microsoft Teams in order to be able to attend the lecture on Monday. The lecture will be recorded and be available through Microsoft Stream (check the tab titled 'lecture recording' in the General channel.

    Just to provide more clarifications for the usage of DataCamp in this term. in order to join the platform you need to use your UNSW e-mail with the domain being (@unsw.edu.au). it will not allow you to join if you are using another e-mail or different domain (i.e. using your e-mail with the domain being '@ad.unsw.edu.au' won't work). Another thing worth mentioning is that for this term we won't be using DataCamp for assessments.

    Best regards,

    Morty

  • Using DataCamp in COMP9321

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Friday 12 February 2021, 04:39:47 PM.

    Dear All,

    I am happy to inform you that we have got permission for the class to use DataCamp under academic subscription for 6 months. DataCamp is an intuitive learning platform for data science and analytics. DataCamp’s learn-by-doing methodology combines short videos and hands-on-the-keyboard exercises to help learners retain knowledge. DataCamp offers 350+ courses by expert instructors on topics such as importing data, data visualization, and machine learning.

    I will share the link to join the course in DataCamp via a poll message similar to how I shared the Microsoft Teams Link.

    regards,

    COMP9321 Teaching Team

  • Welcome to COMP9321

    Posted by Morty Al-Banna Monday 08 February 2021, 01:31:25 AM.

    Dear All,

    Welcome to COMP9321 (Data Services Engineering). Please feel free to check the course provisional outline here ( https://webcms3.cse.unsw.edu.au/COMP9321/21T1/reso... ).

    For the offering of 2021T1 please be advised for the following:

    • the course will run completely online (lectures, consultation labs, exam...etc.).
    • We are going to use Microsoft Teams for Live lecture and the lecture will be recorded and made available after the lecture.
    • We have lab activities and walkthroughs that we will share the details in WebCMS and during the lecture.
    • We will also have consultation labs that we will run everyday of the week starting week2 in order to provide additional support for the lab activates and the assignments. The schedule of the consultation labs will be made available in WebCMS.

    I hope that you will find COMP9321 Educational and Fun...

    Stay tuned for further updated and possibly an introduction video :)

    best regards,

    Morty

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