Objective:
The course objective is to provide the student with an in-depth understanding of data mining and management within the framework of business analytics.
Learning Outcomes:
- Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to determine the difference between data and information
- Explain the role of asking the right questions to extract data from a database
- Recognize how the web works
- Visualize the idea behind clustering
- And compare and contrast classification and decision trees.
- Evaluate alternative answers to questions to develop better strategies using data
- Recognize the practical applications of the four Vs of big data
General Course Topics:
- Enterprise database and data models
- Extracting data from a database
- Overview of the data analysis landscape
- Getting data: social networks and geolocalization
- Clustering and understanding the relation of things
- Blackbox vs. whitebox approach and the implications
- Classification blackbox method
- Large-scale implementation: Hadoop and MapReduce