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Big Data Analytics

Undergraduate | USA-INFS2039 | 2021

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Study method
100% online
Assessments
Subject may require attendance
Entry requirements
No ATAR needed,
No prior study
Duration
10 weeks

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Big Data Analytics

About this subject

  • By the end of this 10-week course, you’ll be able to: 

    1. Describe how data analytics on big data can be used within an organisation to improve current processes and decision making, and to enhance the organisation's capabilities or products. 
    2. Describe the data analytics lifecycle for big data and apply it to constrained problems in big data analytics. 
    3. Develop an appropriate storage structure for big data sets. 
    4. Select an appropriate big data analytics tool and apply it to a problem involving big data. 
    5. Communicate appropriately with professional colleagues through visualisation and report.

Entry requirements

No entry requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
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