CS 738Data Engineering for Data Science
- Units
- 0.50
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Subject
- Computer Science
CS 738 as listed in the Fall 2025 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.
Introduction to data engineering issues in data science. Data management technology objectives. Relational database technology, relational algebra, SQL, transactions, data modelling methodology, entity-relationship models. NoSQL databases including key-value stores, document databases, wide-column stores, graph databases. Overview of big data processing platforms. Data integration including data warehousing, data lakes, ETL and ELT approaches. Data preparation for analysis, data quality, data cleaning. Introduction to several current topics in database research, such as data mining, managing data streams, distributed/parallel databases, HTAP architectures. Open to Master of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (MDSAI) students as well as Master of Mathematics (MMath) in Data Science students.
Prerequisites
None listed.
Antirequisites
None listed.
Leads to
No course lists it as a requisite.
Check it elsewhere for Fall 2025
- Graduate Calendar, Fall 2025The archived entry
- Requirements for Fall 2025Waterloo’s requisite checker
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
Calendar versions
Graduate Calendar
- Winter 2025
- Spring 2025
- Fall 2025 (shown here)
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2024 and earlier in the calendar archives