Data Management for Data Sciences

Catalog description

The course introduces students to the fundamentals of data models: organizing, managing, and using different types of data that arise in real-world applications. The course introduces students to several alternative data models and database solutions, emphasizing their strengths and limitations in the context of real-world applications. Topics covered include the relational databases, key-value stores, column-oriented databases, vector-space databases, graph databases, and distributed file systems together with their applications in solving real-world big data management problems. Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to choose an appropriate data model and database solution for a given application, and use the chosen database to organize, manage, and use data in the context of specific applications.