Big Data Modeling & Analytics

Santa Clara University

Spring Quarter 2023

Course Information:

• Graduate School, Leavey School of Business
• Department of Information Systems & Analytics
• Course MSIS 2527: Big Data Modeling & Analytics
• Big-Data-MapReduce Course @ Santa Clara University
• Class meeting dates:
  • Start: April 3, 2023
  • End: June 10, 2023
  • Final Exam week: June 12-15, 2023
• Class hours:
  • Monday 5:45 PM - 7:20 PM PST (via Zoom)
  • Wednesday 5:45 PM - 7:20 PM PST (via Zoom)
• Class room: TBDL
• Office: 216AA, 2nd Floor, Lucas Hall (not used due to covid-19)
• Office Hours: TBDL (via Zoom and by appointment)
• Office Hours ethics: if you are planning to attend an office hour, then you should send me an email

1. Instructor, Adjunct Professor: Mahmoud Parsian

2. Course Description & Concepts

3. Big Data Modeling Class Web Site

4. Glossary of Big Data, MapReduce, Spark

5. Required Books and Papers

6. Optional Books and References

7. Required Software: MapReduce & Spark/PySpark

8. Syllabus, Spring Quarter 2023

9. Grading and Class Conduct

10. Python Tutorials

11. MapReduce Tutorials

12. PySpark Tutorials

13. Office Hours

14. Midterm Exam

15. Final Exam

16. Mahmoud Parsian's Latest Books:

Data Algorithms with Spark

PySpark Algorithms

Data Algorithms