Big Data Computing Workshop
September 7-8, 2026
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
E Building, Lab 107
About this event
A two-day workshop on Big Data Computing for third- and fourth-year Data Science students, with the ACM Student Chapter leads managing the event. Themed “Big Data. Big Ideas. Bigger Impact.”, it was conducted by Prof. Chinmay Mukim, Assistant Professor in Data Science & Cyber Security. 60 students took part.
What it covered
- The big data ecosystem, from data ingestion and distributed storage to parallel processing
- The 3 Vs of big data, MapReduce, and Spark RDDs and DataFrames
- Hands-on work with Apache Hadoop, PySpark and Python data pipelines: cleaning, transformation, exploratory analysis and distributed computations on sample datasets
- Career paths in data engineering, analytics and machine learning
ACM chapter faculty advisor: Dr. Arti Patle.
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