Online Big Data course by MIT, reg through 28FEB
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 3:07 pm
http://web.mit.edu/professional/onlinex ... _data.html
If you're looking for a way to get in to the topic (and can stomach the $500), could be a good option.COURSE DESCRIPTION
This Online X course will survey state-of-the-art topics in Big Data, looking at data collection (smartphones, sensors, the Web), data storage and processing (scalable relational databases, Hadoop, Spark, etc.), extracting structured data from unstructured data, systems issues (exploiting multicore, security), analytics (machine learning, data compression, efficient algorithms), visualization, and a range of applications.
Each module will introduce broad concepts as well as provide the most recent developments in research.
