Course Catalog Description:
This undergraduate course will focus on various techniques and algorithmic methods for big data analytics. The emphasis will be learning key data mining algorithms for analyzing massive data sets with theoretical analysis of the methods and their practical applications. Several hands-on exercises will be provided using Spark, Hadoop, Python, and Matlab where students will learn big data programming and applications. Also, using social networks and the World Wide Web as real-world big data applications, scalable graph mining techniques will be discussed.
Instructor : WHANG, JOYCE JIYOUNG