UO Big Data Analytics

Course aim

To provide an overview of the tools and techniques of data analytics for big data, and how these can be used by an organisation. To introduce and use some of the common big data tools.

Course content

Overview of Big Data analytics, Characteristics of Big Data, Analysis flow for Big Data.
NoSQL systems: HBase, MongoDB
Data acquisition and storage: Kafka, HDFS, S3
Big Data manipulation techniques: Batch Analytics (Hadoop Map-Reduce), Real-Time Analytics, Interactive Querying
Big Data languages/tools: Pig; Oozie, Spark, Strom, Hive
Big Data applications (e.g. recommendation systems, time series analysis; text analytics).

Textbooks

Nil

Prerequisites

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching Method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Continuous assessment, Examination

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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