Computing for Big Data

Harvard HSPH

This course will give a critical presentation of software implementations, theoretical/algorithmic software development, and modern software tools to collect, store, and process data at scale. This will include hands-on programming practice, R package development (with C++ integration), software design and good software development practice, multiprocessing with OpenMP, cloud computing on the Harvard computing cluster, container images (Docker), and an introduction to big data stacks. A…