MIS584

This course is to help master-level graduate students develop necessary skills of collecting, storing and managing, exploring, processing and computing big data for business purposes. Topics covered in this course will include big data collection for business, data management with SQL and NoSQL based technologies, data exploration and preprocessing for analytics, data dashboards for business, distributed data storage and computing, and big data based machine learning systems. This course will use state-of-the-art data management, data exploration and computing, and big data machine learning software tools (such as SQL Server, MongoDB, PySpark and TensorFlow) to provide hands-on experience. Students will learn how to apply big data techniques to sift through large amounts of data and provide actionable business insights.