BA5460 — Big Data Analytics
This course is a practical introduction to managing big data in the enterprise and covers aspects of technology infrastructure, data warehousing and structuring data for use in the organization. Using state-of-the-art open source big data ecosystems and cloud resources for data acquisition, extraction, cleansing, transformation and loading, the course demonstrates how the ecosystem integrates with other analytic tools to provide solutions for practical use cases. Students enrolled in the 5460 version of the course will have to fulfill an extra assignment/project to earn graduate credit. pre-req: MBA student OR (4+1 student AND MIS 3220)