
The world of Information Technology today is at the threshold of a revolution where low-skill
jobs are being automated and will soon become redundant, jobs in traditional areas like applica-
tion maintenance, infrastructure management, and manual programming are being transitioned
to high-skill jobs and there are growing demands in emerging areas, like Big Data Engineering,
Data Science, Articial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Automation. Of these, Big Data man-
agement is the fundamental enabler for all the rest.
Under these circumstances, this subject is the single-most important inclusion in any curric-
ulum that is aimed at enabling students ...