The Ultimate Hands-On Hadoop: Tame your Big Data! (Udemy.com)

Very clear explanations! Even though not all the technologies are still relevant in the modern Big Data landscape, it's a good conceptual presentation that helps you see how things connect to each other and also connect the dots later on when transitioning to whatever technology is more relevant to a specific project.

I learned about a different technologies, however the practical aspect of this course was not easy, and to be frank, quite frustrating at times. 1. It takes a really long time to set everything up, and get it to work. There should be a note somewhere on the course page how many extra hours this course would take, with the hands-on component. 2. A lot of issues with newer versions, and even the older version of virtual box, as it is now outdated. I often found myself google searching, and searching within the Q&A to find the answers to my issues. I definitely spent hours trying to run some of the components (MongoDB, Cassandra, Spark MLLib). I truly appreciated all the feedback given by the other students. It's a well-rounded courses, it just needs some updates and preferably a heads-up, based on more recent experiences. Thank you for putting it together!

Great course. The lectures are very well put together both in sequence and format. I finished the course with the feeling of having a good eneral idea of how these technologies relate with each other. I just don't give it 5 stars because in my opinion the instructors should contribute more to solve common problems of the activities in the discussion sections. For more than once I encountered some issue that somebody had posted before, and no valuable solution was provided in some cases

Overall good course, but only the issue I faced was that I couldn't download and run the Hortonworks Virtual Machine because it was of huge size. Can you please come up with the solution if there is any VM which works for Big Data platforms and which also is smaller in size?

This course is a great to full understand The Hadoop big data environment! When I started at Foot Locker, I didn’t understand big data at all let alone the technologies. This course helped me achieve a far greater understanding of the environment and its capabilities. I honestly wouldn’t be where I am now with out this course. Frank makes the complex simple by helping you through the process every step of the way. Highly recommended and worth your time especially the Spark environment. I am not reviewing to boost purchases. I’m reviewing because the course is that good.

Covers most of the topics for Big Data. But very basic material on every topic. Most of the time the code doesn't work and the environment suggested for the course will crash. What will help -- A proper environment where students can test run the code and little more details for most of the topics. Edit: After completing the course I feel it's a very good course for bigeners and also for experienced people. It not only covers a Ranga of technologies but shows how to use them together. Plus it concludes with good examples of integration in practical scenarios.

The course is comprehensive and gives a very splendid introduction of all that is out there. It is recommended for those who have absolutely no idea at all of the hadoop ecosystem. It only gives a small flavor of all the different components and it is up to the listener to branch out and do the in-depth study.

Frank did a great job in teaching a long list of Hadoop technologies in a practical and easy to understand manner. I really appreciate the upbeat tone throughout the lectures and the hands-on examples that are there for almost every technology introduced. Thanks, Frank! Keep up the great work!

Definitely one of the greatest introduction courses about the topic. Frank breaks the whole picture down into bits, and walk us through how to digest them. I feel I know enough concepts to be dangerous, and will enjoy exploring further in this journey of Big Data. Thanks a lot!

I was extremely pleased with the content and breadth of this tutorial. However, I'd recommend adding more exercises and lesser hints throughout the program. I acknowledge this is an introductory course but the design problems at the end were real good and I felt the course didn't prep me enough to take on that challenge.