Introducing Big Data and Visualization Tools in Business Education

Mark Frydenberg

Bentley University,

Waltham, MA

Download the Demos

• http://cis.bentley.edu/mfrydenberg (and look for the NBEA 2015 blog post)

Digital Literacy Current Topics

ComputersOperating

System Basics

Input and Output Devices

Internet

Cloud Computing

Wireless Networking

World Wide Web

Software and Apps

Security and Privacy

Mobile Devices

Databases Storage

Word Excel PowerPoint

Big Data

Big Data

Tech Trends Enable Big Data

3 V's

• Volume - amount of data is larger than those conventional relational database infrastructures can handle

• Velocity - the rate at which data is generated, processed and analyzed in (real) time

• Variety – data formats are unstructured and inconsistent

Volume: How Big is Big Data?

http://www.alphasixcorp.com/images/big-data-infograph.jpg

Yottabyte?

A Variety of Big Data Sources

Twitter

McKinsey&Company Report 2011)

• Data is part of every industry and business function.

• Data creates value.

• Big data becomes a basis of competition and growth.

• Some sectors will achieve greater gains.

• Shortage of people with analytical skills.

• Need policies related to privacy, security, ownership.

Great Datasets Tell Great Stories – http://gs.statcounter.com

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Twitter Reverb

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Wolfram Alpha Facebook Report

Visualizations

socilab.com

Google BigQuery Demo

(You can download steps from http://cis.Bentley.edu/mfrydenberg)

http://bigquery.cloud.google.com

Turn on BigQuery

Sample Public Databases

Shakespeare Database

Google BigQuery

A More Complex and Amusing QuerySELECT title,

sum (num_characters) as num_characters

FROM [publicdata:samples.wikipedia]

WHERE

regexp_match(title, r'^G.*o.*o.*g.*l.*e$') and not (title contains 'Google')

GROUP BY title

ORDER BY num_characters DESC

LIMIT 1000

Natality Database Query

Download BigQuery Connector

Excel with BigQuery Connector

Data imported from BigQuery

Analysis with Pivot Table and Spark lines