The world of Big Data sounds a bit like a zoo with animals Hadoop (Elephant), Pig, Impala, Kudu, Giraf and so on. Learn how to tame these animals of the big data space. We will be focusing on the Big Data products in the Opensource space and how these can be applied for Data Science.
Do you struggle with working on big data (large data sets) on your laptop ? Try working on a 10 GB image recognition data set, What will happen? due to the limited computational power of your laptop, you might not proceed further. if you are determined to solve the problem, thankfully, in few hours,You can manage to set up a 24GB machine on AWS for FREE (Trial version with limited features) and can get improved results.Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances provide access to scalable computing resources on the cloud. This allow organizations and individuals to stay away from setting up and maintaining hardware on site. You can use it just like your own laptop but get your dream configuration for a cheaper bargain with the option of varying it as you need in a pay-per-use setting. Amazon EC2 allows you to manage your security, networking and storage as desired.
On completion of the course you will be very comfortable with the concepts of Big data and feel comfortable in using Amazon EC2 services.
