Big Data Computing Foundations I

Catalog description

Professionals must be able to locate, scrape, ingest and clean data sources to produce useful information for exploration and visualization to address work-related challenges. Course focus is on programming in Javascript and Python and tools like Hadoop and Scala. This two-semester sequence is to be taken in parallel with a two-semester sequence on fundamental statistical data analytic methods. Prereq: Enrollment in the Translational Data Analytics program.