CIS 551: Big Data Analytics

Fundamental knowledge for capturing and analyzing large-scale data from diverse fields including human behavior, sensors, biological signals, and finance. The course introduces platforms for data storage systems and distributed processing of large datasets, covering big data pipeline concepts: collection, storage, ingestion, processing, analytics, and visualization. Students will work with platforms such as AWS Athena, AWS Glue, Kinesis, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Hadoop HDFS and MapReduce, and Spark.