Data Services Engineering COMP9321 25T3

Welcome to Week2 of COMP9321 and Important update about the Lecture Time this week

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Monday 22 September 2025, 10:57:52 PM, last modified Monday 22 September 2025, 10:58:53 PM.

***IMPORTANT UPDATE***Before going to the regular announcement, I just wanted to notify everyone that this week's Lectures (for both Wednesday AND Thursday) will be delivered (7:00-9:00PM). Apologies for the change. This is for this week only . The lecture will be Live from 7-9PM and will be recorded as usual.

Dear All,

Welcome to Week2 of COMP9321. I hope you will enjoy the ride.

For this Week, we are going to continue with Data Access and how to store the Data Accessed, learn about NoSQL Databases, then we dive deeper into how you can perform some basic data cleansing (cleaning) and explore your dataset to grasp some understanding.

The Lab activities for Week2 are now available. We encourage you to do them at your own convenience and check the sample solutions if needed. Please note that there might be more than one correct solution for an activity. Remember that we have consultation labs for everyday of the week (starting today). Check the timetable section in WebCMS or the post in ED for the times. Lab activities are not marked and attending the labs is not mandatory, but the lab activities are super important to help you get the required knowledge and skills to solve the assignments. For Attending the consultation labs, head to the Course MS Teams Lab channel on the designated time.

I can see some conversations in ED Stream’s forum. Please keep the questions coming and when you see a classmate asking a question that you know the answer for, don’t be shy, and contribute to the community.

The COMP9321 teaching team is always rooting for you and here to help. Do not hesitate to use the forum to ask as many questions you like or contact us via the course email.

Finally, remember to have fun and enjoy the learning experience. :)

Cheers,

COMP9321 Teaching Team

Welcome to Week1 of COMP9321

Posted by Morty Al-Banna Monday 15 September 2025, 01:19:45 PM.

Dear All,

Welcome to COMP9321 (Data Services Engineering). I hope that you are excited as we are for the first lecture on Wednesday at 2:00PM (Sydney time). the First lecture will be for an overview of the course and introduction to the subject of Data Services Engineering. Please check the course provisional outline here .

For the offering of 2025T3 please be advised for the following:

• The final exam weight is 50% and the exam will take place on campus during the exam period. We are going to use Inspera as the exam platform, and the exam will be conducted in-person on UNSW campus.
• The Delivery of the Lectures and the consultation labs are online via MS Teams. 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 every day of the week starting week2. The intention is to provide additional support for the lab activates and the assignments. The schedule of the consultation labs will be made available in WebCMS. We are also using MS Teams for the consultation labs
• All the students have been added automatically to the course MS Teams Space, please if you are not added, contact us ASAP.
• We will be using Ed Stream as our Q&A Forum. All students will be added in Ed.
• We have got a 6-month subscription to DataCamp for free to students in COMP9321. Using DataCamp is purely optional as an external resource. To join the course in DataCamp please use the link in the poll. Make sure that you have joined the 2025T3 space.

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

Best regards,

COMP9321 Teaching team