Certificate in Big Data Essentials

Students in the Big Data Essentials Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills: 

• Mathematical properties and usage of database programming languages. 
• Methods of database design, conceptual modeling and physical storage for big data sets. 
• Fundamental notions of concurrency control and recovery in database systems. 
• Goal tree search, logic, and deduction, uncertainty, fuzzy logic, knowledge representations, machine learning, vision and action planning. 
• Methods for association and dependency analysis, classification and prediction, and clustering analysis. 
• Current trends in data mining overall as well as for scientific, medical and engineering applications.