2015-2016

Data Journalism & Story Telling

Credits: 
3
Hours: 
21
Area: 
Big Data Story Telling
Description: 

The module aims to teach how to present the knowledge extracted from big data using multimedia story telling. It also shows some of the most recent and meaningful experiences of journalism and story telling based on quantitative information extracted from different data sources.

Data Management for Business Intelligence

Credits: 
3
Hours: 
21
Area: 
Big Data Technology
Academic Year: 
Description: 

The module shows technologies and systems for accessing, managing and analysing Big Data for decision support. Technologies and analysis of problems are shown using examples and case studies in lab. The student will acquire skills on the main technologies for business intelligence and big data management, including data warehouse and online analytical processing technologies.

Data Visualization & Visual analytics

Credits: 
3
Hours: 
21
Area: 
Big Data Story Telling
Academic Year: 
Description: 

The module aims to present the basic methods and techniques for the visualization and presentation of the information obtained from different sources: structured data (relational, hierarchical, trees), network data (social network), temporal data, spatial data and spatio-temporal data. Studying the  existing methods and tools, some scenarios of visual analytics will be presented.

Web Search Engines and Information Retrieval

Credits: 
3
Hours: 
21
Area: 
Big Data Sensing & Procurement
Academic Year: 
Description: 

The module aims to teach the software modules used to build a modern search engine and the analysis of the performance and the computational limits of the algorithmics solutions currently used in each of them. Practical and theoretical fundmentals for the organization and the analysis of IR systems.

Internship

Credits: 
12
Hours: 
300
Academic Year: 
Description: 

The internship period is 300 hours, 12 CFU, that single student or a small group of students have to spend in one of the companies and institutions partner of the master, working on an agreed project and under the supervision of a team of tutors composed by the teachers of the master and the management companies.

Big Data Ethics

Credits: 
3
Hours: 
21
Area: 
Big Data Ethics
Academic Year: 
Description: 

The module aims to introduce ethical and legal notions of privacy, anonymity, transparency and discrimination, also referring the Directives and Regulations of the European Union and their ongoing evolution. Tho module will show Privacy-by-Design models and technologies that are useful to protect the users' rights and that allow the analysis of Big Data without harming the right to the protection of personal data, to transparency and to a fair treatment.

High Performance & Scalable Analytics, NO-SQL Big Data Platforms

Credits: 
3
Hours: 
21
Area: 
Big Data Technology
Tutor: 
Academic Year: 
Description: 

The aim of this course is to introduce the student with the high performance Big Data management tools. The student will gain expertise in the use od NO-SQL platforms for the analysis and mining of large data volumes, thus performing tasks that would not be feasible with traditional data bases.

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