Big Data promises a better world. A world where data will be used to make better decisions, from how we invest money to how we manage our healthcare to how we educate our children and manage our cities and resources. These changes are enabled by a proliferation of new technologies and...
The MIT Big Data Challenge Take me to the CITY OF BOSTON TRANSPORTATION challenge page! OVERVIEWThe MIT Big Data Initiative at CSAIL is organizing competitions designed to spur innovation in how we think about and use data to address major societal issues. Big Data...
MotivationAs financial markets have undergone rapid transformations in the past two decades due to technological advances, organizations in this sector, including banks, asset management firms, companies managing digital payments, telecoms, IT firms, and governmental and regulatory agencies, are...
MIT BIG DATA LIVING LABA key issue today is that data is siloed, whether its personal data, data inside an organization, or data sharing across different organizations. Data discovery and integration is difficult and presents complex technical, organizational and policy challenges. A Living Lab...
TACKLING THE CHALLENGES OF BIG DATA Online course
This Digital Programs course will survey state-of-the-art topics in Big Data, looking at data collection (smartphones, sensors, the Web),
data storage and processing (scalable relational databases, Hadoop, Spark, etc.), extracting structured data from unstructured data,
systems issues (exploiting multicore, security), analytics (machine learning, data compression, efficient algorithms), visualization, and a
range of applications. Each module will introduce broad concepts as well as provide the most recent developments in research.
Course begins: 11/17/15
Individual registrations must be completed by November 24, 2015.
For group sales, purchases can take place up until November 16, 2015.
