COSC 439 - Big Data Systems

Spring
Prerequisite(s): COSC 381, MATH 155. The course details the process for planning big data analysis solutions that include cloud computing and machine learning concepts and terminology relevant to big data analytics, and specific cloud services for collecting, processing, analyzing, and presenting data. Big Data Analytics and Applications further includes the application of machine learning services to resolve problems from different domains and technologies for handling big data such as Hadoop ecosystem, Spark, and SparkML libraries. Big data related concepts such as complexity, distributed systems, parallel computing, and high-performance computing also are covered. A series of data analytics labs complement the taught concepts.