Advanced Big Data Analytics

This course acts as an applied course where students can develop on their combined knowledge of BigData technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, etc.) and Data Science (e.g. Statistics, Machine Learning, etc.) and understand how such combination is used to solve real-world applications. In addition to this main goal, the course has the additional goal of familiarizing students with the latest technological and scientific trends in the field and how Big Data and data science are used in modern business enterprises. Use cases of real problems such as networking traffic, text analytics, and financial applications will be addressed in this course.