I had the pleasure of presenting at the OKC Big Data Meetup on July 6th. Thank you to the great audience who attended and turned out to learn. That meetup continues to grow and I would highly recommend attending it if you are interested in Big Data. (Next one is Aug 3 on 12:30 at StarSpace46.)
Here are the resources and slides from the presentation:
For Learning Big Data Concepts
- Coursera Big Data Specialization (starts Jul 10) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/big-data
- Udacity Intro into Hadoop and MapReduce https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-hadoop-and-mapreduce–ud617
- Udemy Big Data: The Hadoop Ecosystem Masterclass https://www.udemy.com/learn-big-data-the-hadoop-ecosystem-masterclass/
For Getting Your Own Cluster
- Deploying Hadoop on Amazon EC2 (Videos) https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud1000
- Spinning Up a Hadoop Cluster for Free with EC2 (Walkthrough) https://blog.insightdatascience.com/spinning-up-a-free-hadoop-cluster- step-by-step-c406d56bae42
- Databricks Community Edition https://community.cloud.databricks.com/?o=8158027403376652
For Getting Data
- Data.gov
- Census.gov
- The CIA world Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
- HealthData.gov
- WHO http://www.who.int/en/
- AWS Public Datasets: https://aws.amazon.com/datasets/
- Facebook Graph API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api
- Google Public Data: https://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
For Learning a Programming Language
- Scala: Twitter Scala School: https://twitter.github.io/scala_school/
- R: R Programming (Coursera) https://www.coursera.org/learn/r-programming
- Python: Beginner’s Guide https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers
- Java: Codecademy Learn Java https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-java
Something about the light in this photo gives the appearance I was wearing a two-toned shirt. I wasn’t … but I might!
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