About this MicroMasters
This program integrates a variety of topics to allow students to learn the fundamental facets of big data and how it is used in the real world. Topics include mathematical foundations (convex/non-convex optimization and computational methods), data analytics (from data collection, integration, cleansing, mining, machine learning, to business intelligence), and data processing infrastructures (MapReduce, Hadoop, Apache Spark, SQL).
The courses in this program are offered by renowned faculty members from the Computer Science and Engineering Department and the Mathematics Department at HKUST. HKUST ranks at the 30th in Computer Science and Information Systems and 36th in Mathematics according to 2021 QS World University Rankings by Subject.
What you'll learn
- Identify, explain, and use Big Data infrastructure.
- Solve Big Data integration and storge problems.
- Perform various data analytics tasks using Big Data management and computing techniques.
- Investigate existing problems on Big Data and conduct original Big Data research.
| From | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology via edX |
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| Hours | 48 |
| Instructors | Ke YI, Cecia Ki CHAN, Raymond Chi-Wing WONG, Jianfeng CAI |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Programming Mathematics |
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Careers
An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile (33rd - 99th).
Volunteer Big Data Engineer $48k
Data Scientist - Big Data $68k
Big Data and AWS Data Lake $73k
Big Data Developer (Streaming Data) $77k
Big data developer with AWS $78k
Research Scientist Big Data $94k
Big Data Developer Consultant $98k
Big Data Engineer 6 $107k
Big data and ETL specialist $121k
Big Data Specialist $149k
Principal Big Data Architect $180k
Senior Big Data Sales $181k
Courses in this MicroMasters
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Big Data Technology Capstone Project In this capstone course, you will get an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills that you have gained throughout this MicroMasters program. You can choose to complete any... edX | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
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Big data systems such as Hadoop and Spark emerge as enabling technologies in managing massive amounts of data across hundreds or even thousands of computing nodes. Meanwhile,... edX | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
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Foundations of Data Analytics: This course will provide fundamental techniques for data analytics, including data collection, data extraction, data integration, data cleansing,... edX | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
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Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Data mining has recently emerged as a major field of research and applications. Aimed at extracting useful and interesting knowledge from large data repositories such as databases... edX | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
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Mathematical Methods for Data Analysis Mathematics has been playing an important role in data analysis from the very beginning; for example, Fourier analysis is one of the main tools in the analysis of image and signal... edX | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
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| From | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology via edX |
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| Hours | 48 |
| Instructors | Ke YI, Cecia Ki CHAN, Raymond Chi-Wing WONG, Jianfeng CAI |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Programming Mathematics |
Careers
An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile (33rd - 99th).
Volunteer Big Data Engineer $48k
Data Scientist - Big Data $68k
Big Data and AWS Data Lake $73k
Big Data Developer (Streaming Data) $77k
Big data developer with AWS $78k
Research Scientist Big Data $94k
Big Data Developer Consultant $98k
Big Data Engineer 6 $107k
Big data and ETL specialist $121k
Big Data Specialist $149k
Principal Big Data Architect $180k
Senior Big Data Sales $181k
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