This course provides the fundamental knowledge of big data to equip students being able to handle the challenges faced by a wide range of industries. This course offers an introduction to big data and machine learning paving the way for students to learn big data principles. In particular, this course introduces the characteristics and foundations of big data systems, tools/technologies required to store and manage the big data, large-scale machine learning algorithms, and big data visualization. Various case studies for big data analysis such as finance, health care, and social networks will be presented.

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