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Note: Answer was provided for the 1st release. There has been an announcement (Jan 21, 2016) of a 2nd release. This may or may not affect the content that pertains to the quality of the specialization. The comments on other recommended learning materials would still stand as recommendations.
If you can read, no. I took the first two courses and both courses were read along out loud following of basic big data knowledge the groundwork and instructions that Cloudera had already done.
If you want to learn | use Big Data technologies, go here:
There is some great material there and Cloudera's VM is also a nice 'sandbox' to play in: QuickStart VM Download with CDH 5.4
So yes. Lots of other resources I'd recommend over the Big Data Specialization from UC San Diego.
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Note: Answer was provided for the 1st release. There has been an announcement (Jan 21, 2016) of a 2nd release. This may or may not affect the content that pertains to the quality of the specialization. The comments on other recommended learning materials would still stand as recommendations.
If you can read, no. I took the first two courses and both courses were read along out loud following of basic big data knowledge the groundwork and instructions that Cloudera had already done.
If you want to learn | use Big Data technologies, go here:
- MongoDB University Online Courses
- Hortonworks Hadoop Online Training
- IBM's Big Data University | Data Science Courses
- Processing Big Data with Microsoft Azure HDInsight
- Cal Berkeley's Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark
There is some great material there and Cloudera's VM is also a nice 'sandbox' to play in: QuickStart VM Download with CDH 5.4
So yes. Lots of other resources I'd recommend over the Big Data Specialization from UC San Diego.
See Questions On Quora
Continue reading...
