Big Data Principles and Practices

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Course Aims and Objectives

This course provides practical foundation level training that enables immediate and effective participation in big data and its principles and practices. It incorporates a preface to lifecycle of data analytics and big data for addressing challenges of business that influence big data. This training programme offers firm fundamentals in essential and advanced methods of analytics and introduction to big data analytics methodologies and techniques, including Hadoop and MapReduce. In addition, this course offers opportunities for participants to understand how these methods and tools may be applied to real world business challenges.

Course Methodology

This course is designed to highly interactive and knowledge based which includes group discussions, case studies analysis and participant presentation work. Participants will be encouraged to in exercises at the end of course session in order to test practicality of knowledge gained in this course.

Outcomes

Participants will develop the following understanding after successful completion of this course programme:

1. Comprehend big data principles & practices and show capacity to promptly take an interest and contribute as a member of data science on other analytics and big data projects of an organisation by:

• • Addressing big data analytics projects by deploying Data Analytics Lifecycle.
  • Re-addressing a organisational challenge from an analytics challenge perspective.
  • Application of suitable analytic strategies and instruments to examine big data, develop models of statistics, and explore insights that can prompt actionable outcomes.
  • Choosing suitable visualisations of data to unmistakably impart insights of analytic to analytic audiences and business sponsors alike.
  • Demonstrating ability to utilise tools such as: in-database analytics, Window and MADlib functions, R and RStudio and MapReduce/Hadoop.

2. Describe how competitive advantage can be developed using advanced analytics and how the role and skills of a big data analyst contrast from a conventional analyst of business.

Target Audience

Course is intended for individuals seeking to develop an understanding of big data science, including team managers of business intelligence, analytics, business leaders, database professionals, academics and general business experts seeking to take advantage of big data technology and add big data analytics to their skills.

Course Outline

The following modules are included in this course to achieve course objectives:

1. Introduction to Big Data Analytics

• • Big Data Overview
  • State of the Practice in Analytics
  • The Data Scientist

2. Big Data Analytics in Industry Verticals

3. Data Analytics Lifecycle

• • Discovery
  • Data Preparation
  • Model Planning
  • Model Building
  • Communicating Results
  • Operationalizing

4. Using R – Review of Basic Data Analytic Methods

• • Preface to R
  • Exploring and analyzing data
  • Statistics for Model Evaluation and Building

5. Advanced Analytics (Theory and Methods)

• • K Means Clustering
  • Rules Association
  • Linear and Logistics Regression
  • Decision Trees
  • Time Series and Text Analysis

6. Advanced Analytics (Technologies and Tools)

• • Unstructured Data analytics – Hadoop and MapReduce
  • Hadoop Ecosystem
  • SQL Essentials – In-database Analytics
  • Advanced MADlib and SQL for In-database Analytics

Location and Date:

London | 04 – 08 Nov 2024
Cardiff | TBC

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Course Fee:

Per Participant: £5375
Student Rate: £2665
Discount for group of 4 or more

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4+1 Offer
For companies that want to maximize the return on their investment in training: Register 5 participants on the same course and dates and pay only for 4.

Registration Terms
Nominations to our public courses are to be processed by the client’s HR/Training department except for self-nominations which are to be paid in advance using the “payment by self” option on the online registration form. A refund will be issued back to the client in the event of course cancellation or seat unavailability. Registration confirmation is subject to Platform’s review of registration request and seat availability.

Cancellation Terms
If a confirmed registration is cancelled less than 5 calendar days prior to the course start date, a substitute participant may be nominated to attend the same course, or a 20% cancellation charge is applied.

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