B.Sc. (Data Science) SPARK Technologies Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the Fourth Year BSc Data Science Honours syllabus under NEP 2020, phased in one year at a time, from the academic year 2024-25. The University still sets the earlier Choice Based papers alongside it for ATKT candidates, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for SPARK Technologies
Module I: Introduction to SPARK Technologies
- Components of the Spark unified stack, Features of Spark, Spark Web UI, an introduction to RDDs - Resilient Distributed Datasets, Launching and using Spark’s Scala and Python shell, Spark Context, Spark Ecosystem, In-Memory data – Spark, Creating, Loading and Saving RDD, Transformations in RDD, Actions in RDD, Key-Value Pair RDD, Map Reduce and Pair RDD operations RDD Partitions
Module II: Implementation of SPARK Technologies
- Spark Applications vs. Spark Shell, Creating Spark Context, Building a Spark Application, Spark and Hadoop Integration-HDFS, Handling Sequence File, Spark RDD-RDD Lineage, RDD Persistence Overview, Distributed Persistence. Spark Streaming, ML library for Spark, Working with Statistics, SPARK SQL, GraphX, Performance Tuning. 10 Text Books 1. Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Data Analytics 2nd Edition, by Jules S. Damji , Brooke Wenig , Tathagata Das, Denny Lee, O’Reilly , 2020 11 Reference Books 1. Apache Spark Machine Learning Blueprints 1st Edition, Kindle Edition by Alex Liu, Packt Publishing, 2016 2. Apache Spark 2.x Cookbook: Cloud-ready recipes for analytics and data science 2nd Edition, by Rishi Yadav, Packt Publishing, 2017 12 Internal Continuous Assessment: 50% Semester End Examination: 50%
Text Books
- 1 Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Data Analytics 2nd Edition, by Jules S. Damji , Brooke Wenig , Tathagata Das, Denny Lee, O’Reilly , 2020
- 1 Apache Spark Machine Learning Blueprints 1st Edition, Kindle Edition by Alex Liu, Packt Publishing, 2016
- 2 Apache Spark 2.x Cookbook: Cloud-ready recipes for analytics and data science 2nd Edition, by Rishi Yadav, Packt Publishing, 2017
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Data Science) under NEP 2020. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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