Programming with Big Data in R Training Course
Big Data refers to solutions designed for storing and processing large datasets. Initially developed by Google, these Big Data solutions have evolved and inspired similar projects, many of which are available as open-source. R is a popular programming language in the financial industry.
This course is available as onsite live training in Nigeria or online live training.Course Outline
Introduction to Programming Big Data with R (bpdR)
- Setting up your environment to use pbdR
- Scope and tools available in pbdR
- Packages commonly used with Big Data alongside pbdR
Message Passing Interface (MPI)
- Using pbdR MPI 5
- Parallel processing
- Point-to-point communication
- Send Matrices
- Summing Matrices
- Collective communication
- Summing Matrices with Reduce
- Scatter / Gather
- Other MPI communications
Distributed Matrices
- Creating a distributed diagonal matrix
- SVD of a distributed matrix
- Building a distributed matrix in parallel
Statistics Applications
- Monte Carlo Integration
- Reading Datasets
- Reading on all processes
- Broadcasting from one process
- Reading partitioned data
- Distributed Regression
- Distributed Bootstrap
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Course - Programming with Big Data in R
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