Big Data Courses

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Computational Social Science

87 reviews

For more information please view the Computational Social Science Trailer Digital technology has not only revolutionized society, but also the way we can study it. Currently, this is taken advantage of by the most valuable companies in Silicon Valley, t…

• Coursera
• 3 hours a week, 26 weeks long
• Paid Course

Introduction to Big Data

35 reviews

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…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 3 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Hadoop Platform and Application Framework

25 reviews

This course is for novice programmers or business people who would like to understand the core tools used to wrangle and analyze big data. With no prior experience, you will have the opportunity to walk through hands-on examples with Hadoop and Spark fra…

• Coursera
• 25 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Algorithms for Big Data (COMPSCI 229r)

Logistics, course topics, basic tail bounds (Markov, Chebyshev, Chernoff, Bernstein), Morris' algorithm.

• YouTube
• 34 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Graph Analytics for Big Data

6 reviews

Want to understand your data network structure and how it changes under different conditions? Curious to know how to identify closely interacting clusters within a graph? Have you heard of the fast-growing area of graph analytics and want to learn more?…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Managing Big Data with MySQL

6 reviews

This course is an introduction to how to use relational databases in business analysis. You will learn how relational databases work, and how to use entity-relationship diagrams to display the structure of the data held within them. This knowledge will…

• Coursera
• 31 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Data Science Ethics

1 review

What are the ethical considerations regarding the privacy and control of consumer information and big data, especially in the aftermath of recent large-scale data breaches? This course provides a framework to analyze these concerns as you examine the et…

• Coursera
• 14 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Big Data Integration and Processing

3 reviews

At the end of the course, you will be able to: *Retrieve data from example database and big data management systems *Describe the connections between data management operations and the big data processing patterns needed to utilize them in large-scale…

• Coursera
• 17 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics

6 reviews

This course gives you context and first-hand experience with the two major catalyzers of the computational science revolution: big data and artificial intelligence. With more than 99% of all mediated information in digital format and with 98% of the worl…

• Coursera
• 12 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Big Data Modeling and Management Systems

3 reviews

Once you’ve identified a big data issue to analyze, how do you collect, store and organize your data using Big Data solutions? In this course, you will experience various data genres and management tools appropriate for each. You will be able to descri…

• Coursera
• 13 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Database Architecture, Scale, and NoSQL with Elasticsearch

In this final course, you will explore database architecture, PostgreSQL, and various scalable deployment configurations. You will see how PostgreSQL implements basic CRUD operations and indexes, and review how transactions and the ACID (Atomicity, Consi…

• Coursera
• 9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Big Data Analysis with Apache Spark

43 reviews

Learn how to apply data science techniques using parallel programming in Apache Spark to explore big data.

• edX
• 5-10 hours a week, 4 weeks long
• Finished
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Cloud Computing Applications, Part 2: Big Data and Applications in the Cloud

2 reviews

Welcome to the Cloud Computing Applications course, the second part of a two-course series designed to give you a comprehensive view on the world of Cloud Computing and Big Data! In this second course we continue Cloud Computing Applications by explorin…

• Coursera
• 19 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Cloudera

Intro to Hadoop and MapReduce

21 reviews

In this short course, learn the fundamentals of MapReduce and Apache Hadoop to start making sense of Big Data in the real world!

• Udacity
• 4 weeks long
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Big Data, Genes, and Medicine

1 review

This course distills for you expert knowledge and skills mastered by professionals in Health Big Data Science and Bioinformatics. You will learn exciting facts about the human body biology and chemistry, genetics, and medicine that will be intertwined wi…

• Coursera
• 40 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 20th Sep, 2021
• Free Online Course (Audit)