BUDT737

Restriction: Must be in Business and Management (Master's) program; or permission of BMGT-Robert H Smith School of Business. Credit only granted for: BUDT758B or BUDT737. Formerly: BUDT758B. This course uses a learning-by-doing approach to understand key concepts behind Big Data and AI, the strategic drivers of these technologies and the value propositions that they provide to industry. The course cover technologies within this ecosystem including Hadoop, AWS, Pig, Hive, Amazon Web Services and Spark. Examples of AI using Deep Learning will be presented. The focus is on creating awareness of the technologies, providing some level of familiarity with them through hands-on exercises and projects, and enabling strategic thinking around the use of these technologies in business.