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About the Course

Interested in increasing your knowledge of the Big Data landscape? This course is for those new to data science and interested in understanding why the Big Data Era has come to be. It is for those who want to become conversant with the terminology and the core concepts behind big data problems, applications, and systems. It is for those who want to start thinking about how Big Data might be useful in their business or career. It provides an introduction to one of the most common frameworks, Hadoop, that has made big data analysis easier and more accessible -- increasing the potential for data to transform our world! At the end of this course, you will be able to: * Describe the Big Data landscape including examples of real world big data problems including the three key sources of Big Data: people, organizations, and sensors. * Explain the V’s of Big Data (volume, velocity, variety, veracity, valence, and value) and why each impacts data collection, monitoring, storage, analysis and reporting. * Get value out of Big Data by using a 5-step process to structure your analysis. * Identify what are and what are not big data problems and be able to recast big data problems as data science questions. * Provide an explanation of the architectural components and programming models used for scalable big data analysis. * Summarize the features and value of core Hadoop stack components including the YARN resource and job management system, the HDFS file system and the MapReduce programming model. * Install and run a program using Hadoop! This course is for those new to data science. No prior programming experience is needed, although the ability to install applications and utilize a virtual machine is necessary to complete the hands-on assignments. Hardware Requirements: (A) Quad Core Processor (VT-x or AMD-V support recommended), 64-bit; (B) 8 GB RAM; (C) 20 GB disk free. How to find your hardware information: (Windows): Open System by clicking the Start button, right-clicking Computer, and then clicking Properties; (Mac): Open Overview by clicking on the Apple menu and clicking “About This Mac.” Most computers with 8 GB RAM purchased in the last 3 years will meet the minimum requirements.You will need a high speed internet connection because you will be downloading files up to 4 Gb in size. Software Requirements: This course relies on several open-source software tools, including Apache Hadoop. All required software can be downloaded and installed free of charge. Software requirements include: Windows 7+, Mac OS X 10.10+, Ubuntu 14.04+ or CentOS 6+ VirtualBox 5+....

Top reviews

HM

Sep 8, 2019

I love the course. It goes deep into the foundations, and then finishes up with an actual lab where you learn by practice. I greatly benefited from it and feel I have achieved a milestone in big data.

DK

Aug 11, 2021

I love the course. It goes deep into the foundations, and then finishes up with an actual lab where you learn by practice. I greatly benefited from it and feel I have achieved a milestone in big data.

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By Emily C

Jul 5, 2017

Good course, but peer-reviewed assignments make it difficult to learn from feedback.

By Elton B

Dec 17, 2022

Content is a bit outdated, and statistics, course materials need to be updated.

By Gabriel E

Mar 22, 2017

Good course if you do not have any idea about Big Data and the technology used.

By LEONARDO D R E

Jul 30, 2021

Quite basic, i would like it more if it provided a more background on hadoop

By akhil r k

Sep 16, 2016

It's a good introduction, but more optional hadoop exercises can be added.

By Fernando A S G

Jun 14, 2017

A good summary about big data basics. Well structured. Very good course!

By Nadeem

Jan 4, 2017

It would be good if more explanation and more examples are demonstrated.

By Patil S S S

Oct 18, 2020

mostly everything was theoretical , much practical knowledge was needed

By Deleted A

Jun 30, 2020

only theoretical knowledge, no practical use is shown in implementation

By Prajit A

Jul 26, 2022

there are pauses and disruptions and it doesn't cover a lot materials

By Panumate C

Dec 15, 2020

not enough technical contents and too easy

Anyway, thank you very much

By Deleted A

Mar 5, 2019

The audio quality is so bad in the videos - it's really distracting.

By Amir K

Aug 4, 2016

Only skims the surface of Big Data, even for an introduction course.

By 刘佳欣

Nov 22, 2021

very introductory, not so deep. But can work as a basic overview~

By Manik S

Aug 11, 2019

Very easy. Videos are too slow, almost felt like a waste of time

By SUJANA C

Dec 27, 2016

The classes could have been delivered by creating more interest.

By Swati T

Sep 20, 2017

Was good foundational course. week 3 was most important for me

By Muhammad S V

Jan 20, 2017

this course need some odifications because of cloudera version

By eyal

Feb 28, 2018

To my opinion, the intro course should be shorter and faster.

By Bhuvvaan C

Aug 16, 2016

Introductory Level Course.Nothing much on analytical methods.

By Fazila P P

Oct 3, 2020

unable to understand some concept and it is not very clear

By Miguel G

Jan 10, 2018

Very good material but, in my opinion, too many seminars :)

By Rahul P

Jun 30, 2019

The assignments and the quizes seemed pretty shallow...

By Haochuan W

Oct 23, 2018

Watch out for trolls in the peer grading assignments..

By WEIXUAN H

Nov 28, 2018

to many high level concepts but lack of real examples