Section outline

  • New data are incessantly coming from different directions such as web and social networks, the banking sector and financial markets, manufactures, retail networks, scientific researches, healthcare and national security services. Handling them is challenging. Modern conditions dictate the need for organizations to process tons of information to be competitive and attract customers by offering the best products and services. For this purpose, it is necessary to use specific means to extract, process and store large collections of data. This course will introduce the core tools in Big Data field at different levels of technology stack sometimes called Hadoop Stack. In the practical part of the course, you will get hands-on experience, learn how to install and configure such systems, how to program, launch and debug your own Big Data applications.