Centre for Big Data Analytics

COE Big Data 1

The J.N.N – Big Data Analytics Centre of Excellence provides practical foundation level training that enables immediate and effective participation in big data and other analytics projects. It includes an introduction to big data and the Data Analytics Lifecycle to address business challenges that leverage big data. The course provides grounding in basic and advanced analytic methods and an introduction to big data analytics technology and tools, including MapReduce and Hadoop.

Labs offer opportunities for students to understand how these methods and tools may be applied to real world business challenges by a practicing data scientist. The course takes an “Open”, or technology-neutral approach, and includes a final lab which addresses a big data analytics challenge by applying the concepts taught in the course in the context of the Data Analytics Lifecycle. The course prepares the student for the ProvenTM Professional Data Scientist Associate (EMCDSA) certification exam.

 

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able immediately participate and contribute as a Data Science Team Member on big data and other analytics projects by:

• Deploying the Data Analytics Lifecycle to address big data analytics
projects

• Reframing a business challenge as an analytics challenge

• Applying appropriate analytic techniques and tools to analyze big data, create statistical models, and identify insights that can lead to actionable results

• Selecting appropriate data visualizations to clearly communicate analytic insights to business sponsors and analytic audiences

• Using tools such as: Rand RStudio, MapReduce/Hadoop, in-database analytics, Window and MADlib functions

• Explain how advanced analytics can be leveraged to create competitive advantage and how the data scientist role and skills differ from those of a traditional business intelligence analyst.

COE Big Data 2