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  1. PGDBD 5107
  2. Practical Take-home Exam
  3. Practical Take-home Assignment

Practical Take-home Assignment

Completion requirements
Opened: Monday, 2 June 2025, 12:00 AM
Due: Saturday, 7 June 2025, 4:00 PM

Practical Take-home Assignment

The GOAL of this take-home task is to ultimately do research and get our hands dirty by discovering how to prepare working environments to run some selected Big Data tools within an Oracle VirtualBox. 

Note: “A mind ready to dive into technical research, with proper documentation at every stage and eagerness to fix missing dots is probably going to be your friend on this journey”.

1. Essential Downloads

A] Download Oracle VirtualBox 7.1.8 for windows hosts and appropriate extension pack(s).

B] Download Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS from its official site.

C] Download Kaggle Chronic illness Dataset from:

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/flaredown/flaredown-autoimmune-symptom-tracker 

  • Any other downloads you may feel are necessary for you to achieve assigned tasks.

FOR FULL TASK DETAILS SEE ATTACHED FILE

  • Practical Takehome Exam.docx Practical Takehome Exam.docx
    2 June 2025, 10:52 PM

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