From September 19th to September 22nd 2016, the DBgroup will hold a course on "Big Data Analytics" in collaboration with CINECA.

The instructors are:

• Prof.ssa Sonia Bergamaschi, dbgroup
• Givanni Simonini, dbgroup
• Song Zhu, dbgroup
• Giuseppe Fiameni, CINECA
• Roberta Turra, CINECA
• Giorgio Pedrazzi, CINECA
• Antonio Macaluso, CINECA

The course tackles the fundamental technologies to handle, and to extract value from, the so-called Big Data: Apache Hadoop/Spark, basic MapReduce programs, SQL on Spark, Machine Learning on Spark, and R language on Spark.

The main language for the course is Python. Although, experience in Python programming is not required to successfully complete the course.

Link to the detailed program: http://dbgroup.unimo.it/bigdata_settembre_2016