Big Data Analytics
Author: Emilia Colonese What is Big Data Analytics? Let's divide and conquer.. Big Data is defined as collections of datasets whose volume, velocity or variety is so large that it is difficult to store, manage, process and analyze the data using traditional databases and data processing tools. Analytics is the process of extracting and creating information from raw data by filtering, processing, categorizing, condensing and contextualizing the data. This information obtained is then organized and structured to infer knowledge about the system and/or its users, its environment, and its operations and progress towards its objectives, thus making the systems smarter and more efficient. Big Data Analytics focus on big data tools & frameworks, programming models, data management and implementation aspects of big data applications. I teach Big Data Analytics in the Data Science Specialization course at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) . The objective of this subjec...