DSC 425 - Big Data Analytics

(Formerly DSC 400.) At least junior standing. (4)

Study of techniques and tools for extracting knowledge from massive amounts of data. Introduction to fundamental concepts in big data and machine learning methods required for handling large-scale data science problems; systems and techniques to store large volumes of data and analyze them using cluster/cloud computing based on map-reduce frameworks such as Hadoop MapReduce; and cloud computing tools such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure for big data mining tasks. Graded ABCDE