Exploring Big Data for Business I

Catalog description

Due to the explosion of social media and the computerization of every aspect of social and economic activity, large volumes of structured and unstructured data currently exist. They include weblogs, videos, speech recordings, photographs, health data, e-mails, Tweets and business data. Also, improvements in technology have led to the development of powerful computers that can store and process large volumes of data. This course is to introduce students to the essential information systems and technologies used in manipulating, storing, and analyzing big data. Students will be familiar with highly scalable systems that can be used to accept, store, and analyze large volumes of unstructured data in batchmode and/or real-time.