Big Data Analytics

Processing and analysing large-scale datasets using Hadoop, Spark, and cloud platforms. Topics include MapReduce, distributed storage, streaming analytics, and visualisation at scale.

Instructor: Tushar R. Mahore

Term: AY 2024–25

Location: Pimpri Chinchwad University, Pune

Course Overview

This course covers frameworks and techniques for working with data that exceeds the capacity of traditional tools — from distributed storage and processing to real-time stream analytics.

Topics Covered

  • Introduction to Big Data — 5 Vs, ecosystem overview
  • Hadoop ecosystem: HDFS, MapReduce, YARN
  • Apache Spark: RDDs, DataFrames, Spark SQL
  • NoSQL databases: HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB
  • Stream processing: Kafka, Spark Streaming
  • Cloud platforms: Google BigQuery, AWS EMR, Databricks
  • Big Data visualisation and dashboarding

Tools

Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Kafka, BigQuery, Databricks, Power BI

Materials

Course materials will be uploaded here. Contact mahoretushar@gmail.com for resources.