Today, companies are collecting data (lots and lots of data), and these companies are using this collected data to gain advantages over their competitors and the loyalties of their customers. How? With the rise in new technologies, we can thoroughly examine large data sets to reveal market trends, customer preferences, and previously unknown patterns and correlations. Analysis of big data is helping companies discover new business information and predict future market trends, which leads to better marketing strategies, new lines of revenue, effective customer service, operation improvements, and advantages over your competitors. Data analysis is even revolutionizing professional sports teams, no matter what Charles Barkley says!

Tech Talent South’s introduction to Big Data Analytics will cover the foundational topics in data science:

• Data Manipulation
• Data Analysis with Stats and Machine Learning
• Data Communication with Information Visualization

This course will give you the opportunity to implement and execute methods dissecting and analyzing large amounts of data. Tech Talent South will cover the basic techniques of big data, including both SQL and NoSQL solutions for large data management, data mining, and statistical modeling.

**NOTE: Students will need a PC, not a Mac. Microsoft is not currently supporting PowerBI for Mac.