IU X-Informatics Unit 1: Introduction 2: Course Topics I
Channel: Digital Science Center Courses
Date: 2013-09-24

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Lesson Overview:
Geoffrey discusses some of the available units:
Motivation: Big Data and the Cloud; Centerpieces of the Future Economy
Introduction: What is Big Data, Data Analytics and X-Informatics
X= LHC Analysis and Discovery of Higgs particle
Technology: Explore Events; histograms and models; basic statistics
X= e-Commerce and Lifestyle
Technology: Recommender Systems - K-Nearest Neighbors
Clustering and heuristic methods