0. Suggestions

Things you'd like to see

• What is data?
  • Not just columns, datatypes:
    • Numeric - Integer, Float
    • Text
    • Boolean
    • Time - Date, Datetime
    • Factor
• Structured versus Unstructured data - Degrees of messiness
  • Usually unstructured means using code to extract typed fields of data
• Where does data live? Datastores
  • Files - .csv, .xls, .txt
  • Databases - Oracle, MySQL, Postgresql
  • "Big Data"
    • NoSQL - Cassandra
    • Hadoop
      • Things on top of Hadoop - Hive, Spark, etc.
• Why Databases?
  • Control - Permissions
  • Centralization
  • Transactions
  • Backup
• Big Data
  • What is it?
  • Why?
• How to work with data?
  • Data in - Ingest of one of the above
    • Read from files
    • Use SQL
    • Use APIs
  • Data transformation
    • Feature extraction
    • Aggregation
  • Data out - graphs, etc.
    • ggplot2, Matplotlib, Tableau, d3.js