Category: Big Data Beginner

This course on Computational Epidemiology aims to teach students the role of big data and pervasive informatics in understanding and combating epidemics. The learning outcomes include understanding mass action compartmental models, networked epidemiology, graphical dynamical systems, and disease progression models. The course covers the pros and cons of different epidemiological approaches and introduces Simdemics, a…

Learn how to utilize genomics, wearables, and big data to effectively manage health and disease. Understand personal “Omics” profiling, epigenetics, gene inactivation, and early detection of diseases. The course teaches skills in analyzing individual changes over time, interpreting DNA methylation, and utilizing data for health management. The teaching method includes lectures and case studies. This…

The American Dream—the idea that through hard work any child can rise up and achieve a higher standard of living than their parents—is fading: only half of kids today will go on to earn more than their parents did. Why has this happened? And, how can we reverse the fading of the American Dream? What…

Did you know that students taught for a single year in high school by a great teacher earn an average of $50,000 more over the course of their lifetime? Education can increase or decrease a child’s likelihood of economic mobility. In the Big Data For Education professional certificate series, teachers and educational administrations can take…

What factors increase or decrease your likelihood of economic mobility? Does the neighborhood you grew up in play a part? How different is your life from the family’s life just a few streets over? It’s likely you’ve wondered what factors influence one’s success, but it’s more likely you’ve never considered that such small changes in…

Want to make sense of the volumes of data you have collected? Need to incorporate data-driven decisions into your process? This course provides an overview of machine learning techniques to explore, analyze, and leverage data. You will be introduced to tools and algorithms you can use to create machine learning models that learn from data,…

In a digital world, data has gone ‘big’ – ushering in the age of the zettabyte. This course shows you how big data equals business opportunity. Find out what ‘big data’ means and where it comes from – including ordinary transactions and social interactions. See how smart businesses use data to target their offerings and…

Ethical behaviour brings significant benefits to businesses such as attracting employees, customers and investors. But failure to manage it properly can create huge challenges. On this course, you’ll discover big data and tax avoidance. You’ll examine the benefits and ethical challenges inherent to big data, including the issues of privacy and data security. You’ll learn…

This course is for novice programmers or business people who would like to understand the core tools used to wrangle and analyze big data. With no prior experience, you will have the opportunity to walk through hands-on examples with Hadoop and Spark frameworks, two of the most common in the industry. You will be comfortable…

Looking to learn how big data architecture works? With Oracle’s big data platform you can learn just what you need to know about big data architecture here! Big data is a large ecosystem that requires students to learn variety of skill sets. In this course, Starting with Oracle Big Data, you will learn the overall…