BUAN6346 - Big Data

BUAN 6346 (MIS 6346) Big Data (3 semester credit hours) This course covers topics including (1) understanding of big data concepts, (2) manipulation of big data with popular tools to efficiently develop end-to-end Big Data applications, and (3) distributed analytics programming. It is a project-oriented course; thus, students will be required to establish a big data environment, perform various analytics, and report findings in their projects. Though concepts and theoretical aspects are addressed, more emphasis will be on the actual operations of a big data system. Students will not only manipulate the basic big data software/system but also use various dedicated big-data tools and perform distributed analytics programming with popular computer languages and apply Machine Learning Techniques. Prerequisite: BUAN 6320 or MIS 6320 or MIS 6326. (3-0) Y