Big Data in Organizations

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Through lectures, guest speaking series, readings, practical techniques, real-world examples, and hands-on exercises, we will explore the Big Data landscape, its ecosystem, market players, technologies involved, open source software and programs, methodology, step-by-step approach, to begin a corporate strategy around big data. We will show how to decompose current business strategies in order to link big data initiatives to the organization’s value creation processes, and identify big data use cases. This course will help students understand the essentials of Big Data, directing them to various tools that can facilitate the big data usage in their organizations, and prepare them to be valuable Big Data professionals.