Big Data Analytics

Catalog description

Unstructured data abounds in today’s environment. These arise in the form of tweets, Facebook and Instagram posts, photographs, videos, speech recordings and the like. IT tools have made impressive progress in being able to analyze and extract meaning from this sort of unstructured data. This course will help students understand the key technologies used in storing, processing and analyzing these forms of unstructured, big data. Students will use R, Python, Cassandra, Spark and Tensor Flow. Students will learn how to conceive of big data applications and design scalable systems.