CISC 565 - Social Media and Large-Scale Data Analytics

Credit(s): 3
Prerequisite(s): CISC 505 Object-Oriented Programming and Analysis of Algorithms, CISC 520 Database Management Systems, CISC 530 Mathematical Methods for Data Analysis
This course provides a broad view on internet social media and its related data analysis techniques and privacy concerns. It covers frontlines of research topics in internet social media and social security. After the characteristics of social media and social media models, the course shows the reasons and ways of social media that is going to shape our future, and a variety of challenges facing domestically as well as internationally. It teaches specific IT architectures of social media and their unique technologies such as Relational Database management, Distributed Database management including two phase locking and two phase commit, No-sql, parallel processing such as Hadoop and Map Reduce. Moreover, security policies of social media in government, school and enterprise through case studies are discussed.