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EAGER: Learning Big Data Analytic Skills through Scientific Workflows

Abstract

Big data analytics has emerged as a widely desirable skill in many areas. Although courses are now available on a variety of aspects of big data, there is a lack of a broad and accessible course that covers the variety of topics that concern big data analytics. As a result, acquiring practical data analytics skills is out of reach for many students and professionals, posing severe limitations to our ability as a society to take advantage of our vast digital data resources. The goal of this work is to develop curriculum materials for big data analytics to provide broad and practical training in data analytics in the context of real-world and science-grade datasets and data analytics methods. A key technical basis of the approach is the use of workflows that capture expert analytic methods that will be presented to users for practice with real-world datasets within pre-defined lesson units. The results of this work include lesson units for …

Date
January 1, 1970
Authors
Yolanda Gil
Journal
NSF Award Number 1355475. Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Volume
13
Issue
1355475
Pages
55475