Dhruv Akshay Pandit

Dhruv Akshay Pandit

PhD Candidate in Information Management, researching the impacts of weather variability and shocks on the Portuguese socioeconomy.

Big Data Analytics

Bachelor's and master's courses, NOVA Information Management School, 2024

Since 2024, I have taught practical labs for Big Data Analytics courses at NOVA Information Management School.

Courses

  • Big Data Analytics - master’s students
  • Big Data for Marketing - master’s students
  • Big Data Analytics - bachelor’s students

Course Focus

The practical labs introduce students to applied big data workflows and distributed computing tools, with an emphasis on PySpark, Apache Spark, SparkML, and GraphFrames. Lab content covers working with large datasets, building scalable data processing pipelines, applying machine learning methods in distributed environments, and introducing foundations of streaming data workflows, including Kafka basics.