CS 3950 - Big Data Analytics

Credits: 3
Lecture: 45
Lab: 0

Introduces students to big data analytics as the science of analyzing data, visualizing data, generating insights and making predictions. Applications include social media analysis, eSports, climate modeling, healthcare, traffic monitoring and numerous other data rich domains. Familiarizes students with Python to manipulate, store and analyze big data. Covers the basic tools for statistical analysis using Python and several machine-learning algorithms.

Prerequisite(s): CS 3930 and CIS 1110A or CS 2150 or CS 2410 or CS 3110
Corequisite(s): None