Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering

GGE5405Introduction to Big Data & Data Science3 ch (2C 2L) (LE)

Offers an overview of key techniques and technologies in big data analytics, and how data science is different from related fields. Through a combination of lectures and hands on exercises using R, MongoDB, and D3 visualization tools, students will learn to explore, clean, refine, analyze and visualize geospatial, streaming, unstructured and structured types of big data.

Prerequisite: GGE 3423.