Browsing Theses by Subject "Big Data"
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Dataset Creation and Imbalance Mitigation in Big Data: Enhancing Machine Learning Models for Forest Fire Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-19)Historically, forest fire prediction methods have leaned on heuristics, local insights, and basic statistical models, often neglecting the complex interplay of variables such as temperature, humidity, wind speed, and ... -
Public Health Monitoring of Behavioural Risk Factors and Mobility in Canada: An IoT-based Big Data Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-06)Background: Despite the presence of robust global public health surveillance mechanisms, the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the world and exposed the weakness of the public healthcare systems. Public health surveillance has ... -
Scalable Embeddings for Kernel Clustering on MapReduce
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-18)There is an increasing demand from businesses and industries to make the best use of their data. Clustering is a powerful tool for discovering natural groupings in data. The k-means algorithm is the most commonly-used data ... -
A Taylor polynomial expansion line search for large-scale optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-29)In trying to cope with the Big Data deluge, the landscape of distributed computing has changed. Large commodity hardware clusters, typically operating in some form of MapReduce framework, are becoming prevalent for ...