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Technologies for Big Data Management


News

  • Lesson update: The lessons planned for 6, 10 and 13 November 2025 will take place in LA1.
  • No lesson on 20 October: no lesson on this day.
  • No lesson on 16 October: no lesson on this day.
  • Webex recordings: recordings are available at the following link.
  • Course start: the course is planned to start the 6th of October - AB2 - Polo Lodovici A.

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General Info

Teacher:

ESSE3 Link

Scheduling of Lectures:

  • Scheduling is available at the following link

Degrees:

Curricula:

  • Methodologies and Technologies for Digital Communication

Course Objectives

  • knowledge about business data analysis.
  • Understanding of main differences between classical methods in data analysis and new modern scenarios.
  • Knowledge and expertise on Big Data, basic principles and concepts, techniques that enable data analysis and management at scale.
  • Knowledge of the main Big Data frameworks and their application in real case studies.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to enterprise and data management.
  • Analysis of scenarios and contexts of data generation: from the inter-organizational model to the Internet of things.
  • Introduction to the classic data analysis techniques: ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), Business Intelligence, Reporting Tools.
  • Introduction to the Big Data model, concepts, principles and technological frameworks.
  • Data Analytics methodologies and techniques: batch analysis models, streaming computation.

Study material

Course Slides

  • Projects (TBD)
  • Reference materials
    • Slides course.
    • Material provided by the teacher.
    • Examples
    • Other materials

Exams

Exam Dates A.Y. 2024/2025 (tentative)

  • 02/02/2026
  • 23/02/2026
  • 22/06/2026
  • 06/07/2026
  • 27/07/2026
  • 07/09/2026
  • 29/09/2026
  • 01/02/2027
  • 15/02/2027

Exam rules:

  • Writing Examination
  • Project lab (max 3 member per team)

For the discussion students have to publish the final code to a public github repository (or similar) along with the necessary documnatation (pre-requisite, installation, configuration, usage, etc). Moreover a set of slides have to be presented in that day along with a practical demonstration of the running code. Slides should cover the following points:

  1. Project description / objectives
  2. Methodology and technology being used
  3. Technical implementation
  4. Achieved results
  5. future improvements

Exam Results

  • See news section