This document provides an overview of a lecture on big data analytics given by Dr. Ching-Yung Lin. The key points covered in the lecture include:
- Definitions and characteristics of big data based on the 3V's of volume, velocity and variety.
- Techniques used for big data such as massive parallelism, distributed storage and processing, machine learning and data visualization.
- Factors that have enabled big data to become prominent in recent years like greater data collection, open source software and commodity hardware.
- Examples of big data platforms, databases and analytics techniques including Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL databases and graph databases.
- The large and growing market for big data