Introduction to Big Data, methodology, and ecosystems

Lecture 1 introduces the course and how we will work along it. It also introduces the Big Data concept, history, context, applications, and ecosystems. We present the problem first principle and a data science methodology that will drive our work. We start implementing the first stage of the methodology, making data available.

Department: Departamento de Matemáticas y Estadística - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales

Institution: Universidad de Nariño

Date: June 06, 2026

Hours: 5

From: 07:00 am

To: 01:00 pm

HTML slides | Notebook - Individual

Week 1 links

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Resources

References

boyd, d., & Crawford, K. (2012). Critical questions for big data. Information, Communication & Society, 15(5), 662–679.
Zuboff, S. (2019). The age of surveillance capitalism (Chapter 1). PublicAffairs. (Spanish or English edition — distributed by course email.)
Mittelstadt, B. D., et al. (2016). The ethics of algorithms: Mapping the debate. Big Data & Society, 3(2).