STAT448-19S2 (C) Semester Two 2019

Big Data

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2019
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 26 July 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 27 September 2019

Description

STAT448 is suited to anyone with an interest in data, and how it can be used in decision making. In this course we introduce you to big data and some of the techniques you can use to access, explore and investigate it. Students enrolling in this course should be familiar with statistics and with programming.

STAT448 is suited to anyone with an interest in data, and how it can be used in decision making. In this course we introduce you to big data and some of the techniques you can use to access, explore and investigate it. Students enrolling in this course should be familiar with statistics and with programming.

Learning Outcomes

  • The Courses will:
  • Provide an introduction to what Big Data is, and why it has risen to such importance in science.
  • Introduce terminology and techniques for dealing with Big Data.
  • Describe techniques for exploring Big Data.

    You will be able to:
  • Understand the basic concepts of how and where Big Data arises.
  • Describe data structures and mechanisms for the capture, storage, processing, summary and visualisation of Big Data
  • Implement practical methods for data acquisition and management using appropriate software
  • Understand basic methods of analysis of Big Data, including methods from machine learning for high dimensional data

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of School

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Marco Reale

Lecturer

Varvara Vetrova

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $923.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mathematics and Statistics .

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