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Big Data and Hadoop for Beginners - with Hands-on! (Udemy.com)

Everything you need to know about Big Data, and Learn Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Hive & Pig by designing Data Pipeline.

Created by: Andalib Ansari

Last updated July 2025

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What you will learn

  • Understand different technology trends, salary trends, Big Data market and different job roles in Big Data
  • Understand what Hadoop is for, and how it works
  • Understand complex architectures of Hadoop and its component
  • Hadoop installation on your machine
  • Understand how MapReduce, Hive and Pig can be used to analyze big data sets
  • High quality documents
  • Demos: Running HDFS commands, Hive queries, Pig queries
  • Sample data sets and scripts (HDFS commands, Hive sample queries, Pig sample queries, Data Pipeline sample queries)
  • Start writing your own codes in Hive and Pig to process huge volumes of data
  • Design your own data pipeline using Pig and Hive
  • Understand modern data architecture: Data Lake
  • Practice with Big Data sets

How it compares

Against the other 150 rated Udemy courses in Hadoop on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.0 out of 5higher than 18% of them
  • Reviews2,073#35 of 151 by number of reviews
  • Length3.2 hoursshorter than 84% of them
  • Last updatedJuly 2025more recently than 73% of them

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Course Description

Jumpstart Your Big Data Journey with Hands-On Hadoop Training!

Ready to dive into the world of Big Data? This beginner-friendly course is your perfect starting point! Whether you're an aspiring data engineer, analyst, or tech enthusiast, "Big Data and Hadoop for Beginners – with Hands-on!" is designed to simplify complex concepts and get you job-ready with real-world skills.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Big Data 101: Get a clear overview of the Big Data landscape, including global salary trends, in-demand roles, and top technologies shaping the future.

  • Hadoop Demystified: Understand the architecture of Hadoop and its ecosystem (HDFS, YARN, MapReduce) with intuitive, visual breakdowns and beginner-friendly examples.

  • Hive Made Easy: Learn how Hive simplifies querying large datasets and get hands-on with data models, file formats, and HiveQL.

  • Mastering Pig: Discover how Pig processes data efficiently and learn to write Pig Latin scripts through practical demonstrations.

  • Real-World Use Cases: Explore how modern companies leverage Hadoop in Data Lakes and build your own mini Big Data pipeline from scratch.

  • Practice with Real Data: Sharpen your skills with large datasets and practice designing optimized data models and pipelines.

Course Structure:
The course is structured into 6 comprehensive sections, each packed with step-by-step demos and practical assignments. No prior experience is needed, just curiosity and the drive to learn!

Why Take This Course?

  • Designed specifically for beginners

  • Clear, practical explanations of Hadoop and its components

  • High-quality, hands-on exercises to build confidence

  • A complete foundation to pursue Big Data roles or advanced courses


Check out some of our reviews from real students:-


"A nice learning for beginners, the thing which differentiates this course from other similar courses is that it has very "effective and concise" content, so do even a layman can understand easily. The course shows only 3 hours of on-demand video lecture but one should always give time to each lecture ( by means of bookmarks and pause), then you would able to understand all the basics of Big data and Hadoop."


"I liked the hands-on approach. very helpful."

"Overall definitely worth the money for what you get, I learnt so much about Big Data."

"I absolutely recommend taking this course."


"Presenter explains in simple terms and any lay person or someone like me who has no background about databases and data can understand. Explaining the business use case application us very helpful in understanding how this can be useful for everyday business."

"Loved it. Saved lots of time searching information on the internet."

"Very informative, and the course gave me what I was looking for. Thanks!"


"Big Data introduction can be daunting with several new keywords and components that one needs to understand. But, this course very clearly explains to a beginner about the architecture and different tools that can be leveraged in a big data project. It also has indications on the scope of big data in the industry, different roles one can perform in the big data space and also cover various commercial distributions of big data. Overall, a great course for a beginner to get started on the fundamentals of big data. Use Case is a bonus !"




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Instructor Details

Andalib Ansari

Hi, I am Andalib Ansari, a Data Architect and AI Engineer with 12+ years building the data platforms that power some of the world's biggest online gaming, ride-hailing, SaaS, and telecom companies.

I have architected large-scale data lakes and warehouses processing petabytes of data, built high-performance pipelines with Spark, Airflow, and Python, and shipped production systems on Redshift, EMR, Athena, Hive, and Scala. More recently, I have moved up the stack - designing agentic AI applications and RAG assistants with LangChain and n8n that sit directly on top of the data platforms I build, turning raw pipelines into systems that actually reason and act.

I have delivered production-grade architectures across AWS and GCP, built analytics platforms and React-based data tools, and led engineering teams shipping real infrastructure with real business consequences.

Along the way, I have built two courses, from Big Data and Hadoop fundamentals for beginners to hands-on Data Engineering with SQL, ETL, PySpark, and AWS, reaching 29,000+ students across 145+ countries. These courses are the next step: practical, hands-on, and built for the modern data stack, the same tools and patterns I use in production today, distilled into a path that makes you genuinely job-ready.

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Reviews

4.0

2,073 ratings on Udemy

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By Mary Luz Perdomo on 12/27/2020

Si, pero los subttulos (Caption) no corresponden adecuadamente con lo que est diciendo el facilitador

By Michael on 12/20/2020

video rarely loads despite very fast internet speed. selected sections cant play.
The introduction starts with no focus!
You practically cant select any section and it plays.
Is this a scam? just to collect some cheap dollars?

By Sri Chandra Duddu on 12/6/2020

Crisp content and good hands on exercises

By Harry T on 10/26/2020

good contents so far..

By Benty on 10/20/2020

well designed course for beginners.

By Nisa Ahmad on 10/18/2020

good so far..

By Sheila Khumalo on 10/18/2020

I learnt a lot, short and straight to the point. Good start for beginners!

By Ajay Chandra on 10/4/2020

Installation part is not updated as per current as per the attached document it does not work especially the ssh prompt. Basics of spark would be an add value.

By Sam H on 10/3/2020

Clear and concise.

By Melissa Keith on 9/25/2020

This course gave me a holistic approach to Big Data fundamentals.

By Jennifer Fleischer on 9/18/2020

Covers all the major topics and provides a clear insight big data.

By Charles Schenk on 9/12/2020

This was very helpful! Excellent walk-through big data with detailed explanations.

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Overall Score : 80 / 100