Getting Started
List of Probable Project Topics
- Batch ETL Pipeline with Spark (clean → transform → store in Parquet; partitioning strategy)
- Streaming Analytics Dashboard (Kafka-like stream → Spark Streaming → real-time KPIs)
- Log Analytics at Scale (web/server logs: sessionization, funnels, anomaly spikes)
- Clickstream Processing System (event ingestion + user journeys + cohort retention)
- Social Media Text Mining Pipeline (topic/sentiment at scale; distributed NLP features)
- IoT Sensor Data Platform (time-series ingestion, aggregation, alert rules)
- Fraud/Anomaly Detection on Big Transactions (feature generation + scalable scoring)
- Large-Scale Recommendation Data Prep (implicit feedback matrix building + sampling)
- Distributed Join & Query Optimization Study (broadcast vs shuffle joins; benchmarks)
- Data Lakehouse Build (raw/bronze → silver → gold layers; Delta/Iceberg-like design)
- NoSQL vs SQL Benchmarking (MongoDB/Cassandra vs Postgres for read/write workloads)
- Search Indexing Pipeline (ingest docs → build inverted index/Elasticsearch-style analysis)
- Graph Processing Project (PageRank/community detection using GraphX or similar)
- Cloud Cost & Performance Tuning (cluster sizing, partitioning, caching, resource configs)
- Large-Scale Deduplication & Entity Resolution (blocking + similarity joins)
- Air Quality / Weather Big Data Analytics (multi-source ingestion + geo/time aggregations)
- Data Quality Monitoring System (schema checks, drift detection, alerting)
- End-to-End BI on Big Data (warehouse tables + aggregated marts + dashboarding)
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