NOVA Information Management School

Big Data

Code

200144

Academic unit

NOVA Information Management School

Credits

7.5

Teacher in charge

Weekly hours

0.0

Teaching language

Portuguese. If there are Erasmus students, classes will be taught in English

Objectives

To present the main challenges related to the use of big data

Prerequisites

Presence is not mandatory

Subject matter

Big Data: Introduction and Challenges
Data Mining for Big Data
Map Reduce model
Finding Similar Items
Mining Data Streams
Link Analysis
Frequent Itemsets
Clustering
Recommendation Systems
Dimensionality Reduction
Large-Scale Machine Learning

Bibliography

Mining of Massive Datasets. Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, Jeff Ullman

Teaching method

Theoretical classes where the professor will present the main thematics in the field of big data.

Evaluation method

Final test at the end of the course

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