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Big Data Analytics Course Outline (Fall 2020) : Dr. Tariq Mahmood 830 Am - 11 Am (Monday) Scope

The course outline provides an overview of the Big Data Analytics course to be offered in the fall 2020 semester. It will cover topics including NoSQL databases, Apache Hadoop, Lambda and Kappa architectures, and hands-on activities. The 13-week course will be taught by Dr. Tariq Mahmood and include weekly lectures, assignments, a midterm, final exam, and a project, with an emphasis on applying concepts through hands-on labs and tools like MongoDB, Neo4j, and Spark MLlib.

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Big Data Analytics Course Outline (Fall 2020) : Dr. Tariq Mahmood 830 Am - 11 Am (Monday) Scope

The course outline provides an overview of the Big Data Analytics course to be offered in the fall 2020 semester. It will cover topics including NoSQL databases, Apache Hadoop, Lambda and Kappa architectures, and hands-on activities. The 13-week course will be taught by Dr. Tariq Mahmood and include weekly lectures, assignments, a midterm, final exam, and a project, with an emphasis on applying concepts through hands-on labs and tools like MongoDB, Neo4j, and Spark MLlib.

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Big Data Analytics Course Outline (Fall 2020)


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Course Instructor: Dr. Tariq Mahmood


Consultation Hours: 830 am – 11 am (Monday)
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Scope: The scope of this course is to impart the core knowledge and hands-on related to state of the art
BDA technology stack and BDA infrastructures to students. Focus will be on the NoSQL database
categories, i.e., document, key-value, wide columnar, and graph, along with Apache Hadoop and its strong
relationship to BDA and the Lambda, Kappa, Zeta and HTAP big data architectures.

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Weekly Lecture Breakdown (6 hours/Week):

• Week 1:
o History of Analytics, Definition of Big Data, Big Data Characteristics, Use Cases, 10 Vs of
Big Data, Why Big Data Matters
o Types of Big Data and Data Lakes
o Big Data Landscapes
o Definition and categorization of Big Data Analytics
o Introduction and Overview of NoSQL databases
o Introduction and Overview of Apache Hadoop Ecosystem

• Week 2:
o Hadoop 2, YARN, HDFS, and setting up Hadoop clusters
o Hands-on Activity

• Week 3:
o MapReduce: Theory and Hands-on

• Week 4:
o Apache Spark with Apache Kafka
o Hands-on Activity

• Week 5:
o Apache Hive, Apache HBase and Apache Cassandra
o Hands-on Activity

• Week 6:
o Apache Presto and Apache Drill
o Hands-on Activity
• Week 7:
o Document NoSQL with MongoDB
o Hands-on Activity

• Week 8:
o Graph NoSQL with Neo4J
o Hands-on Activity

• Week 9:
o Key Value Stores with Redis
o Hands-on Activity

• Week 10:
o Lambda and Kappa Big Data Architectures
o Potential Hands-on

• Week 11:
o Zeta Big data architecture
o Potential Hands-on

• Week 12:
o Spark’s ML-Lib
o Potential Hands-on

• Week 13:
o Project Demos
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Potential Lab Tools: MS SQL Server (SSIS), Oracle Online, ETL on Python (Anaconda).

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Text Books:

• The Guide to Big Data Analytics, Data Meer


• Big Data for Dummies, Wiley
• Big Data Analytics, TDWI EBook
• Mining Massive Datasets, Rajaraman, Leskovec, Ullman, Stanford University
• Online Reference Manuals
• Hadoop: The Definitive Guide (OReilly)
• Turning Big Data into Big Money, by F. Ohlhurst
• Hadoop Real World Solutions Cookbook, by Owens and Femiano
Grade Distribution:

• Lab Assignments and Quizzes: 25%


• Project: 15%
• Mid-term: 20%
• Final Exam: 40%

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