Big Data Application Development

(3 Credits)

This is an introductory course on Spark programming, Spark architecture, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, and integration of Spark with the Hadoop ecosystem for developing Big Data analytics applications. The course project can be completed with Scala or Python, and Spark. This course covers technologies that integrate well with Spark in the creation of Big Data analytics applications. Students are required to complete weekly reading and programming assignments and demonstrate mastery of course topics by developing a final project using Spark.