Unit outline
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| Enrolment modes: | Year 3, Semester 2 |
| Credit point(s): | 12.5 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | BIT101 Programming,BUS107 Database I, BUS303 Data Analytics. |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 10 hours per week over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities: | 4 timetabled hours per week, 6 personal study hours per week |
| Other resource requirements: | Students will need access to lab computers or will need their own laptops in order to carry out lab exercises and assignments. Students will need to use Apache Hadoop and Apache HBase. |
Unit description
This unit covers the key concepts, applications, architectures, and processes that are widely used in big data applications. Due to the growth of the internet, there is massive amount of data available to individuals and organisations. Such data cannont be processed or managed using the traditional methods of storing and processing due to the complexity involved. This unit examines the challenges in dealing with large amounts of data faced by organisations to collect, integrate, analyse and present data, often in different formats and from various sources. It also covers technologies that are commonly used in industry such as NoSQL, Map-Reduce and Hadoop.
Unit Outline Outcomes (ULO)
| On the successful completion of this units student will be able to: | ||
| ULO1 | Discuss the challenges and opportunities of Big Data. | |
| ULO2 | Appraise different big data concepts, tools, techniques, and applications. | |
| ULO3 | Analyse data using available big data tools. | |
| ULO4 | Design appropriate repository structure for storing big data. | |
| ULO5 | Propose big data solutions using Map-reduce techniques. |
Topics to be included
| 1. | Introduction to big data |
| 2. | Non-structured data |
| 3. | Organizing, storing, and processing big data |
| 4. | Frequent Items |
| 5. | Finding similar items |
| 6. | Supervised and unsupervised learning (classification & clustering) |
| 7. | Data analytics in big data |
| 8. | Data visualization |
| 9. | Map-reduce framework |
| 10. | Hadoop |
| 11. | Big data applications |
| 12. | Recommendation Systems & Revision |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) |
Indicative due week |
| Assessment 1: Class Participation | 10% | 12 |
| Assessment 2: Design Report and Presentation (Group) | 30% | 8 |
| Assessment 3: Practical Project (Individual) | 30% | 12 |
| Assessment 4: Final Exam | 30% | Final exam week |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. Your lecturer will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.