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Hadoop on Azure. An Introduction to Big Data Using HDInsight (Udemy.com)

A Pragmatic Introduction To HDInsight

3.4

76 reviews

Created by: Mike West

Last updated December 2015

What you will learn

Understand the basics concepts of Big Data.
Understand the mostly widely used tool for working with big data... Hadoop.
Learn what Microsoft is doing to help organizations create Hadoop clusters faster and more affordably than ever before.

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Rating3.4 out of 5higher than 3% of them
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Last updatedDecember 2015earlier than 96% of them

Course Description

Massive amounts of data are being collected on just about everything and only a small part of that data is being analyzed.

In 2014, every second over 5700 tweets were sent and 870 Facebook links were sent.

In 2013, about 4.4 zettabytes of data were created and approximately 5% of it was analyzed.

By 2020, it’s estimated that we will collect 44 zettabytes of data and the amount we analyze will jump to 40%.

One of the most overused words in recent times is “Big Data”

But what does the word really mean?

Big data refers to data being collected in ever-escalating volumes, at increasingly high velocities, and for a widening variety of unstructured formats and variable semantic contexts.

Big data describes any large body of digital information, from the text in a Twitter feed, to the sensor information from industrial equipment, to information about customer browsing and purchases on an online catalog.

Big data can be historical (meaning stored data) or real-time (meaning streamed directly from the source).

For big data to provide actionable intelligence or insight, not only must the right questions be asked and data be relevant to the issues be collected, the data must be accessible, cleaned, analyzed, and then presented in a useful way.

HDInsight is a cloud implementation on Microsoft Azure of the rapidly exanding Apache Hadoop technology stack that is the go-to solution for big data analysis.

It includes implementations of Storm, HBase, Pig, Hive, Sqoop, Oozie, Ambari, and so on. HDInsight also integrates with business intelligence (BI) tools such as Excel, SQL Server Analysis Services, and SQL Server Reporting Services.

Note: This is not a hands on course. This course creates a knowledge foundation for my next course in this series which is using what we've learned to create a real world end to end big data solution with Azure HDInsight.

Beginner Level

Time: 36 mins

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Instructor Details

Mike West

3.4 Rating
76 Reviews

I'm the founder of LogikBot. I've worked at Microsoft and Uber. I helped design courses for Microsoft's Data Science Certifications. If you're interested in machine learning, I can help.

I've worked with databases for over two decades. I've worked for or consulted with over 50 different companies as a full time employee or consultant. Fortune 500 as well as several small to mid-size companies. Some include: Georgia Pacific, SunTrust, Reed Construction Data, Building Systems Design, NetCertainty, The Home Shopping Network, SwingVote, Atlanta Gas and Light and Northrup Grumman.

Over the last five years I've transitioned to the exciting world of applied machine learning. I'm excited to show you what I've learned and help you move into one of the single most important fields in this space.

Experience, education and passion

I learn something almost every day. I work with insanely smart people. I'm a voracious learner of all things SQL Server and I'm passionate about sharing what I've learned. My area of concentration is performance tuning. SQL Server is like an exotic sports car, it will run just fine in anyone's hands but put it in the hands of skilled tuner and it will perform like a race car.

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