Introduction to Big Data Analytics

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This course is for novice programmers or business people who'd like to understand more advanced tools used to wrangle and analyze big data. In this course you will be guided in basic approaches to querying and exploring data using higher level tools built on top of a Hadoop Platform. You will be walked through query interfaces, environments, and the canonical situations for tools like HBASE, HIVE, Pig, as well as more general tools like Spark-SQL. After this course you will be able to identify the kinds of analysis you can get of big data and how to interpret these results.

HBASE: Hadoop's database
In this Module we will talk about HBase - Hadoop’s database, a distributed, scalable, big data store.

HIVE: a Hadoop-based data warehouse
In this Module we will learn about Hive, the data warehousing infrastructure based on Hadoop that facilitates querying and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage.

PIG: A Dataflow Engine for Hadoop
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could quickly gather/sample/view and perform simple analysis on HDFS data? Then PIG might fly for you! This module will introduce the essential concepts and basic execution of PIG.

Splunk: Log Analysis and More
Welcome to the data analytics with Splunk module- this week, we’re going to go further in our quest to examine different ways and tools to deploy analytics on large dataset and gain valuable insight.

Spark for Analytics
Welcome to Spark for Analytics, this week we will learn about Spark SQL. Spark SQL provides a higher level interface to process your data and write more expressive code. We'll focus on data exploration, cleaning and plotting.