Big Data Analytics
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- What is Big Data?
Big data considers all the data a company can collect to make business decisions. It includes the following five characterisitics:
- Volume: The sher amount of data that can be collected and analyzed
- Velocity: How quickly data changes
- Variety: The many types of data that can be collected and analyzed
- Veracity: How accurate is the data and how reliable is the data source?
- Value: What is the value of the data to the organization
- Where is Big Data Analytics Used?
- Banking & Securities
- Communicatioins, Media & Entertainment
- Healthcare Providers
- Education
- Manufacturing & Natural Resources
- Government
- Insurance
- Retail & Wholesale Trade
- Transportation
- Energy & Utilities
- Big Data Job Opportunities
- A McKinsey Global Institute stude stated that the US will face a shortage of about 190,000 data sciencetist and 1.5 million managers and analysts who understand Big Data by 2018.
- An article titled "20 Reasons Why Big Data Analytics is the Best Career Move" at Dataversity.net stated there will be an estimated 2.7 million job postings for data analytics and data science by 2020.
- Big Data Salaries
According to Monster.com the salary ranges for big data jobs are:
- Data Warehouse Analyst $107,000 - $155,000
- Data Modeler $111,000 - $162,000
- Data Scientist $116,000 - $164,000
- Data Architect $131,000 - $184,000
- Big Data Engineer $135,000 - $196,000
- How Do I Learn About Big Data? Earn a Big Data Analytics CertificateCISD 41 - Introduction to Data Science
Learn how to use toold for acquiring, cleaning, analyzing, exploring, and visualizing data; making data-driven inferences and decisions; and effectively communicating results.
CISD 42 - Big Data Integration and ProcessingUse Big Data frameworks and tools. Integrate Big Data and warehouse data using various technologies.
CISD 43 - Big Data Modeling and AnalysisProvides an exposure to data modeling, data mining, text mining, analytics, real-time analytics, and graph analytics from Big Data perspective.
- How Long Will it Take to Earn the Certificate?The Certificate can be achieved in two semesters!
- CISD 41 - Fall 2019: Tuesday 7:00pm - 10:00pm
- CISD 42 - Spring 2020: First 8 weeks from 7:00pm - 10:00pm (Twice a week)
- CISD 43 - Spring 2020: Second 8 weeks from 7:00 pm - 10:00pm (Twice a week)
- Learn More
Contact Sohair Zaki at szaki5@mtsac.edu
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