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Ke YI, Cecia Ki CHAN, Raymond Chi-Wing WONG, and Jianfeng CAI

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).

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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.

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Five courses

Foundations of Data Analytics

(64 hours)
Foundations of Data Analytics: This course covers data collection, extraction, integration, cleansing, and basic machine learning. It also introduces data security and privacy. Learners will use Python for data preprocessing and analysis.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

(1 hours)
Data mining has recently emerged as a major field of research and applications. It aims to extract useful and interesting knowledge from large data repositories such as databases and the Web. Data mining integrates techniques from the fields of database, statistics, and AI.

Big Data Computing with Spark

(64 hours)
Big data systems, like Hadoop and Spark, are used to manage large amounts of data. This course teaches you how to use Spark to program big data systems. You will learn how to use Spark's RDD and DataFrame APIs, as well as useful packages like ML, GraphX/GraphFrames, and SparkStreaming. You will also learn about Spark internals and performance optimizations, and how to design algorithms for big data systems.

Mathematical Methods for Data Analysis

(64 hours)
Mathematics plays a crucial role in data analysis. This course introduces mathematical methods for exploiting data structures. It covers:

Big Data Technology Capstone Project

(24 hours)
In this capstone course, you will apply your knowledge and skills in big data technologies to a real-life scenario. You will build a showcase project to demonstrate your knowledge and experience. You will also learn how to independently work on a big data project.

Learning objectives

  • 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.

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