This document provides information about a course on data analytics. It outlines the course outcomes, which include developing scalable systems using Apache and Hadoop, writing MapReduce applications, differentiating SQL and NoSQL, and analyzing and developing big data solutions using Hive and Pig. The document also describes some of the topics that will be covered in the course, including distributed file systems and their issues, an introduction to big data, characteristics of big data, types of big data, and comparisons between traditional and big data approaches.