Big Data & Analytics for Decision Making

The astounding growth of data in all aspects of life in the form of emails, weblogs, tweets, sensors, video and text has necessitated the use of Big Data and advanced analytics techniques to support large scale data analytics and managerial decision making. This course brings together key Big Data tools on a cloud platform to show how to efficiently manage data with three main characteristics: volume, velocity and variety. Topics include working with data on a cloud platform, social media analytics, link analysis, and stream analytics.