CAS 771 / Introduction to Big Data Systems and Applications

3 unit(s)

Nowadays, unstructured data such as multimedia data account for around 80% of Internet traffic. Meanwhile, more than 80% of potentially usable business information exists in unstructured formats (e.g., audio/video information, social network relations, users’ purchasing habits, environmental data). Much of the unstructured data remains unused because the algorithms available for analyzing and understanding unstructured data usually do not scale up to handle the amount of data being generated. This course will discuss and explore the computer system design to deal with large scale unstructured data.