Courses Detail Information

ECE4721J – Methods and Tools for Big Data

Instructors:

Credits: 4

Pre-requisites: STAT4130J /STAT4060J/ECE4710J, and ECE4820J

Description:

This course provides an introduction to big data analytics. The focus of this course will be the understanding of big data algorithms and big data technologies and frameworks.

Course Topics:

Distributed systems, Hadoop, HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Drill, Spark, Dimensionality reduction, Random projections, PCA, gradient descent, algorithms and data structures