Data Science and Big Data Analytics

Catalog description

This course drives the student through the different stages of the Data Science process with an emphasis on Data Analytics, and its application to Big Data in particular. The course presents the infrastructure and technology needed to carry out NoSQL and big data analytics, in terms of both storage and processing. Students will gain a solid understanding of the various NoSQL database types, distinguishing their specific use-cases and advantages in the broader data ecosystem. The course presents relevant (Big) Data Analytics tools in the Cloud and demonstrates how the Cloud constitutes a major technology enabler in the Big Data realm, for instance HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File Systems) and Spark.