MS In Big Data

I have completed my graduate degree and want to take admission in Simon Fraser University for doing MS In Big Data. Will you provide me some details about this course and also provide me complete curriculum of this course available in this University?

[Kiran Chandar]

Simon Fraser University, commonly referred to as SFU, is a public research university in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

The School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University launched the Professional Master's Program in Big Data.

About Big Data:

Big data refers to tremendous amounts of information which is becoming increasingly available due to widespread use of the internet and computing systems.


CURRICULUM

The Big Data program curriculum covers the following areas:

Analysis of scalability of algorithms to big data.
Data warehouses and online analytical processing.
Efficient storage of big data including data streams.
Scalable querying and reporting on massive data sets.
Scalable and distributed hardware and software architectures.
Software as a service. Cloud Computing (e.g. Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine).
Big data programming models: map-reduce, distributed databases, software for implementing streaming and sketching algorithms.
Dealing with unstructured data such as images, text or biological sequences.
Scalable machine learning methods such as online learning.
Data mining: methods for learning descriptive and predictive models from data.
Distributed algorithms over very large graphs and matrices.
Social media analysis.
Visualization methods and interactive data exploration.

Fees:

Total program cost for domestic students (4 semesters): $26,520
Total program cost for international students (4 semesters): $31,620

Address:

Simon Fraser University
8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
Phone: +1 778-782-3111

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