Explores advanced tools for interacting with large-scale data and the challenges and benefits Big Data provides. Introduces tools and methods of analytics for extracting, transforming, and loading to facilitate analysis. Examines questions of ethics, governance, privacy, and security of data stored in elastic clouds and analyzed on distributed clusters. Offers students an opportunity to apply theoretical concepts to create data solutions supported by large-scale data collection and management. Introduces concepts of distributed file systems, large-scale data streaming, and techniques of analysis in large-scale data systems.