Course Description

This course introduces you to big data analytics and shines a new light on the entire field of data science.  How do you transform data into usable and actionable information?  Where do you start?  Why is data more valuable than money?  How do you put the pieces together?

Instead of limiting oneself to monthly averages, one can now analyze enterprise data on an hour-by-hour or minute-by-minute level of detail. However, for efficient big data analysis, one must master the appropriate tools. In this course we cover the following:

• Big Data batch queries with Hive
• Various ways of speeding up SQL queries (Tez, Spark, optimized data formats)
• Real-time analytics with NoSQL
• Cloud-based analytic