The purpose of this graduate course is twofold: broadening graduate students' knowledge and understanding of the current frontiers of data analytics and management research, and teaching data analytics and data mining research methodology and skills.
In this semester, we will focus on big data analytics methods. Specifically, we will cover some fundamental and useful ideas and methods in handling big data, with the focus on sampling and computational statistics, as well as their programming implementation and applications. Since it is an advanced graduate course, sufficient preparation and interest in data analytics (i.e., database systems and data mining) and undergraduate entry level statistics are assumed.
- Solid comprehensive background in probability theory and statistics.