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Modern Big Data Analysis with SQL Specialization

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Modern Big Data Analysis with SQL Specialization

Learn Data Analysis for Big Data. Master using SQL for data analysis on distributed big data systems

Ian Cook
Glynn Durham

Instructors: Ian Cook

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Specialization - 3 course series

Foundations for Big Data Analysis with SQL

Course 111 hours4.7 (1,084 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Distinguish operational from analytic databases, and understand how these are applied in big data

  • Understand how database and table design provides structures for working with data

  • Appreciate how differences in volume and variety of data affects your choice of an appropriate database system

  • Recognize the features and benefits of SQL dialects designed to work with big data systems for storage and analysis

Skills you'll gain

Category: Big Data
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Data Warehousing
Category: Database (DBMS)
Category: SQL

Analyzing Big Data with SQL

Course 217 hours4.8 (526 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Understand the basics of SELECT statements

  • Understand how and why to filter results

  • Explore grouping and aggregation to answer analytic questions

  • Work with sorting and limiting results

Skills you'll gain

Category: Big Data
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Apache Impala
Category: SQL
Category: Apache Hive

Managing Big Data in Clusters and Cloud Storage

Course 320 hours4.7 (295 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Use different tools to browse existing databases and tables in big data systems

  • Use different tools to explore files in distributed big data filesystems and cloud storage

  • Create and manage big data databases and tables using Apache Hive and Apache Impala

  • Describe and choose among different data types and file formats for big data systems

Skills you'll gain

Category: Big Data
Category: Distributed File Systems
Category: SQL
Category: Cloud Storage
Category: Data Management

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Glynn Durham
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