Introduction of big data – Big data characteristics – Volume, Veracity, Velocity, and Variety – Data Appliance Challenges and Issues, Case for Big data, Big data sources, Features of data. – Evolution of Big data – Best Practices for Big data Analytics – and Integration tools Introduction to Data Modeling, Data Models Used in Practice: Conceptual data models, Logical data models, Physical data models, Common Data Modeling Notations , How to Model Data : Identify entity types, Identify attributes, Apply naming conventions, Identify relationships, Apply data model patterns, Assign keys, Normalize to reduce data redundancy, Introduction to elementary data analysis: Measures of center: Mean, Median, Mode, Variance, Standard deviation, Range. Normal Distribution: Center, Spread, Skewed Left, Skewed Right, outlier. Correlations: Correlation Patterns: Direction relationship, Magnitude Relationship. Introduction to Bayesian Modeling: Bayes Rule, Probabilistic Modeling Introduction to Predictive Analytics: Simple Linear regression, Multiple Linear regression, Logistic Linear Regression. History of Visualization, Goals of Visualization, Types of Data Visualization: Scientific Visualization, Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Impact of visualization Introduction to Data Processing , Map Reduce Framework , Hadoop ,HDFS , S3 Hadoop Distributed file systems, Apache Mahout, Hive,Sharding, Hbase , Impala , Case studies : Analyzing big data with twitter ,Big data for Ecommerce , Big data for blogs.