course_outline.md

Course Outline

1. MapReduce Paradigm (up to 25%)

• Jimmy Lin's Book
• Solve Big Data problems using MapReduce functions:
  • map()
  • combine()
  • reduce()

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2. PySpark and Spark (up to 65%)

• Solve Big Data problems using Spark/PySpark
• Mahmoud Parsian's book: Data Algorithms with Spark

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3. Data Partitioning and SQL Queries (up to 10%)

• Amazon Athena
• Google BigQuery