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Big Data, Cloud Computing, and Location Analytics
Big Data, which means many things to many people, is not a new technological fad. It has become a business priority that has the potential to profoundly change the competitive landscape in today's globally integrated economy. In addition to providing innovative solutions to enduring business challenges, Big Data and analytics instigate new ways to transform processes, organizations, entire industries, and even society altogether. Yet extensive media coverage makes it hard to distinguish hype from reality. This module aims to provide a comprehensive coverage of Big Data, its enabling technologies, and related analytics concepts to help understand the capabilities and limitations of this emerging technology. The module starts with a definition and related concepts of Big Data followed by the technical details of the enabling technologies, including Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL. We provide a comparative analysis between data warehousing and Big Data analytics. The last part of the module is dedicated to analytics, which is one of the most promising value propositions of Big Data analytics stream.
Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss what Big Data is and how it is changing the world of analytics
2. Analyze the motivation for and business drivers of Big Data analytics
3. Compare and contrast the complementary uses of data warehousing and Big Data technologies