COMP9313 Big Data Management (UNSW Sydney): rated 3.0/5 overall across 30 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
COMP9313 is a UNSW Sydney course taught by the Faculty of Engineering in School of Computer Science and Engineering. This page brings together its handbook details and what UNSW students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 大数据管理
Type: Undergraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Level: Postgraduate Level 9
Handbook year: 2026
This course introduces the core concepts and technologies involved in managing Big Data. It will first introduce the characteristics of big data and big data analysis.
COMP9313 has 30 scored reviews: overall 3.0/5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 30 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.0/5).
On Reddit: "It's COMP9313, big data management. The project was to construct a specific locality-sensitive hashing algorithm known as C2LSH. Coding a correct solution wasn't really the issue though, it was that it needed to finish within a certain time to score marks. There was a tonne of a…"
On Reddit: "Agree. I am in the course this term (COMP9313). The lecturer presented a naive solution and told the class that to get a high mark you had to make improvements to it. Also, we were given a toy dataset and told that it was not sufficient to only test against it. So I figure there…"
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Q: Is COMP9313 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 30 reviews: overall 3.0/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP9313, and when is it offered?
A: COMP9313 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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