Managing Big Data with R and Hadoop

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for people interested in data science, computational statistics and machine learning and have basic experiences with them. It will be also useful for advanced undergraduate students and first year PhD students in data analysis, statistics or bioinformatics, who wish to understand how to manage big data with Hadoop using R programming language.

We expect that the learners will also have basic experiences with linux and bash and working experiences with R and matrix operations. They should be also capable to download and run virtual machine.

What topics will you cover?

Welcome to BIG DATA

Working with Hadoop

First steps in R and RHadoop

Statistical learning with RHadoop: clustering

Statistical learning with RHadoop: regression and classification