The main idea of the project is to work on a novel idea that tries to solve a challenging problem in big data processing. You can either work alone or with another student to develop and implement a research idea, and design experiments to evaluate your implementation. If you have an ongoing research project in a related area, I encourage you to continue to work on this project and develop a “big data component” to fulfill the class requirement.
You can use any open-source big data infrastructures
for your implementation, including but not limited to: