Category Archives: Courses

Big data: what is it?

What is Big Data? Big data is term that you often hear when people talk about data science and analytics. So, the question is, “what is big data?” Doug Laney from Gartner, a leading information technology research company, defined 3 dimensions of “big data”: volume, velocity, and variety. Volume denotes the size and scale of… Read More »

Fall 2016 Classes

Why are open source statistical programming languages the best? Because they R. It is August and Fall 2016 classes begin in just a couple of days.  I am currently prepping for two large classes: I happy to see the incredible interest in my graduate course with over 50 students enrolled in ISE/DSA 5103 Intelligent Data Analytics! I… Read More »