You can easily get away with skipping the first two weeks of the course. Only the last half the third week seems to contain any real technical information about hadoop.

I guess I shouldn't be pissed at an 'Introduction' course to be too basic, but still... It's completely skippable, even if you don't know anything about big data.

This is more focused on theory than practical experience.Its better to shorten the video duration so that it will not be boring to listen to lectures.

The introduction is too theoretical and the practice starts too late. The last assignment is actually where I truly felt I started learning Big Data.

Worst introduction. The Instructors are very promising don't get me wrong. The structure of the course and the presentation and editing is awful.

Content is outdated. Especially the hands on work given towards the end of the course, It was not self-explanatory

There should be more hands on experience in the first classes, so the pupils have something to tie the knowledge.

Would have been fine as a 1 week introduction to the material but as a stand alone course was insufficient.

Most of the course is providing useless statistics, i didn't enjoy it and it's a really basic course.

A very basic and still confusing set of slides. It's much more productive to google Hadoop wiki.

Some very basic information, minimal hands-on work, and very picky tests/quizzes

content boring. slide not attractive enough to attract beginner to learn.

nice but need to include more technical informative lectures.

I want to enroll this course ....and I'm unable to do it

Quite poor. Just a lot of talk and nothing practical.

Nothing Practical just talking and lots of talking

The last quiz i think that should not given

In my opinion, a very basic course...

This course was really basic.

too broad of explanations

theory-oriented course

Too philosophical.

very boring

The initial presentation is a bit bloated, naming all the ways big data can be useful could have been 5 minutes. The default configuration of oracle VB and cloudera quickstart did not work for me at all (windows 7 64bit, 32g of ram), I had so many issues that I spent much more time trying to get that to work than I did everything else in this class. Finally, the course at no point mentioned any of the potential social/legal issues of using dig data, just what the value of tracking information. I have done a few certificates from either EDX or Coursera, and this was the worst one.

These UCSD "big data" course series is not great. I am pretty sure the "instructors" are reading straight from a public wiki. The dropping of acronyms and buzz words indicates the instructors are not familiar with the core content nor able to actually instruct. Glossing over actual execution and installation of sample virtual machines is abhorrent and completely ruins what minimal value a student may have learned. There are many free YouTube videos on Hadoop that are more informative than this course series.