Big Data Essentials¶
L1: Introduction to Big Data¶
Yanfei Kang
yanfeikang@buaa.edu.cn
School of Economics and Management
Beihang University
http://yanfei.site
How we generate data nowadays?¶
- Google has 8 services with over 1 billion users!
- Amazon has 600+ million products!
- The Netflix Prize dataset had 100 million ratings of 17,770 movies from 480,189 customers!
- ...
What data are we talking about?¶
- Web data.
- Text data.
- Time and location data.
- Smart grid and sensor data.
- Social network data.
- ...
So what is big data?¶
Data is dirty!¶
- Irregular, missing, incomplete
- Unstructured
- Incorrect (human error)
- Spread out across different databases and files
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Difficulties of collecting data will only increase!
Difficulties of analyzing data will only improve!
So we need proper tools!¶
What tools will we learn in this course?¶
- Linux
- Python
- Hadoop