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Big Data, MapReduce, Spark, PySpark @ Santa Clara University, Winter 2018

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Course Information: Fall 2018

  • Graduate School, Leavey School of Business
  • Department of Information Systems & Analytics
  • Course MSIS 2627: Big Data Modeling & Analytics
  • Big-Data-MapReduce Course @ Santa Clara University
  • Class Meeting dates: 09/18/2018 - 12/7/2018
  • Class hours:
    • Tuesday 5:45PM - 7:00PM PST
    • Thursday 5:45PM - 7:00PM PST
  • Class room: Lucas Hall 210
  • Office: 321 T, Lucas Hall

Required Books and Papers


Midterm Exam

  • Midterm Exam Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018
  • Midterm Exam Time: 5:45PM - 7:00PM PST

Final Exam

  • Final Exam Date: Thursday, December 6, 2018
  • Final Exam Time: 5:45PM - 7:45PM PST

Course Description

The main focus of this class is to cover the following concepts:

  • Concepts of Big Data
  • Distributed File Systems
  • Distributed Computing
  • Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
  • MapReduce Paradigm
  • MapReduce Algorithms
  • Scale-out Architectures (using Hadoop, Spark, PySpark)
  • Apache Spark: http://spark.apache.org/
  • Use Spark, Py-Spark, Hadoop, and Java to teach MapReduce and distributed computing
  • SQL for NoSQL Data, How?

My latest book:

Data Algorithms: Recipes for Scaling up with Hadoop and Spark

Data Algorithms Book